Aloha Festivals Aloha Festivals The Aloha Festivals are an annual series of free cultural celebrations observed in the state of Hawaii in the United States. It is the only statewide cultural festival in the nation. Highlights include the presentation of the Royal Court, a ho'olaule'a in Waikiki, and the Floral Parade. Approximately 30,000 people volunteer to plan, organize, and provide labor for the Aloha Festivals each year. Their efforts entertain over 1,000,000 people from throughout the state and visitors from all over the world. In the spirit of preserving the Hawaiian culture and heritage, the Aloha Festivals were established in 1946 as
What Cheer, Iowa the site that would become Providence in 1636, he was greeted by Narragansett Native Americans with "What Cheer, "Netop"". "Netop" was the Narragansett word for "friend", and the Narragansetts had picked up the "what cheer" greeting from English settlers. It is possible that the connection between What Cheer, Iowa and What Cheer, the shibboleth of Rhode Island, was merely coincidental - the entries for these subjects are adjacent but not connected in the 1908 edition of the Encyclopedia Americana. What Cheer has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names. Robert Forsyth, born in Kilmarnock, Scotland, came to America