About
Welcome to the Beyond The Postcard Series.
If you are reading this, it means you are looking for something more than a tan.
Hawaiʻi is the most isolated population center on Earth. It is a place of immense beauty, but for millions of visitors each year, that beauty is often reduced to a two-dimensional backdrop—a postcard image of a palm tree, a sunset, and a smiling hula dancer.
But a postcard has no depth. It has no voice. It cannot scream, it cannot sing, and it cannot bleed.
The Beyond The Postcard series is an invitation to look behind the curtain.
Written by Alston Alika Albarado—a Native Hawaiian educator, storyteller, and theatre artist—this series bridges the gap between the "Visitor" and the "Guest." It rejects the dry, academic tone of textbooks and the superficial fluff of travel brochures. Instead, it offers a Narrative History: a storytelling approach that blends the epic scope of James Michener with the grit of a local talking story at a beach park.
