JUST STEPS INTO THE half-mile pathway ascending along the river stream flowing down from the mountains, Pari becomes mesmerized by the unique experience of the Moe’uhane ahupua’a and begins to understand the historical importance of a freshwater river stream to survival and culture on the island. Despite all of the build-up from Abby Goodwin, who even went so far as to call it “a garden of Eden,” she had expected it, in reality, to only be a picturesque park. She is awakening to much more.
Perpendicular to the office headquarters building, situated near a small bay at the point where the river stream reaches the ocean, there are two pavilions, one on each side of the pathway. The eastern pavilion, which is noticeably the older of the two structures, is a narrow rectangle with a series
