Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Into the wagon
In the wagon, two sides.
Oh! You folks actually had to go out, pick by hand
Yes.
You picking all this corn by hand. You open ‘em
Yes, you open it like this, throw ‘em in the trailer, in the wagon, I mean.
The wagon
One guy just drive slow.
Wow, that’s amazing!
Then they had the family go, maybe your wife, yourself, you go.
Yes.
They all pick too.
Everyone would help pick corn
Yes.
And these are fields, acres
Yes, by the acre.
Oh, wow, that’s amazing!
That’s why you see when you pass Waiki‘i, you see the old wagons. That’s the one.
That kind of wagon
Yes.
And so, two horses
Two horses.
Two horse pull. You folks…there’s a crew of people then, I guess
Yes.
About ten or
No, maybe about twenty, twenty-one. Guys want to work, they pay ‘em.
Were most of those families, the one’s that were living up there or did they come up
No, some of the family came up from either Hilo side or from Waimea.
During season time
Yes, season time, they stay up there.
Yes. There were still families in your time, living up there
Yes, still had families. That was a good time place that.
Oh, yeah
All the families together, weekends and when the cowboys get payday. All get good time.
One cowboy catch a fat pig, they bury, kälua.
Hmm. So you folks, they could go out hunting and stuff like that
Yes, was free, good.
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:175