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wcerto
Ahonui
USA
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 Posted - 06/10/2007 : 04:32:54 AM
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This obviously, is not an instructional book about music. Rather, it is a story about the sugar industry on the Big Island. It really is much more than that....it is a glimpse into the life and times of the people who worked the land and kept the businesses going. It is like sitting down and talking story with an old friend. No pretentious language, not a dry technical treatise. It is written by Ysushi "Scotch" Kurisu, who for more than 70 years has lived Hawai`i's sugar plantation life from the inside. This is a small book, a mere 100 pages, but packed full of vignettes about his friends, family and the land of his birth. He tells about all the jobs he had working at the plantation and mill at Hakalau; about his leisure pasttimes, fishing stories, obake stories, tales about the tsunamis. It is interspersed with wonderful pictures documenting the sugar days, which are, alas, no more. And, our own "Menpachi Man" went to school with the Kurisu keiki...one who grew up to be a well-to-do developer on O`ahu.
Try go read dis one...he make you buss up...he make you get waimaka, he make you get some kine akamai.
Sugar Town: Hawai`i Plantation Days Remembered
by Yasushi "Scotch" Kurisu
Watermark Publishing, 1995
ISBN: 0-9705787-1-
I got mine at Borders in Honolulu. It is available on amazon.com.
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Me ke aloha
Malama pono,
Wanda |
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