A few weeks ago I headed to Washington D.C., just in time to see the cherry blossoms explode. Also to appear on C-Span’s Book TV. My interlocutor was Congressman Ed Case, D-HI, who represents the district that includes Kalaupapa, and who has been quoted on record that The Colony was not long enough. (Oh where you, Congressman Case, when my editor was hacking away at my prose?) Our subsequent lively discussion is viewable here.