Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Still there.
Is that Kremkows'
Kremkow.
The guy’s living in there Is that right
Yes, Kremkow. He bought Waiki‘i.
That’s the old…
The old house there, but he enlarged it. And from there you go down to the orchard.
Just below his place
Yes.
Before the big hill though.
Towards…that’s all down hill.
Yes.
Right next to the highway. The walnut trees, you can see it yet.
Oh yeah, that’s walnut trees.
Before you turn to the village now, on the right hand side you look. There’s couple of
trees, that’s walnut there.
Oh, wow! Interesting. So they would gather that and…
Well guys used to go pick up for sell ‘em in the stores.
Wow! How, was good nuts
Good nuts, the walnuts were good.
They had apples, cherries, you said, plums
Plums.
Walnuts
Grapes.
Grapes too. What, make wine out there
[chuckling]
I don’t know if they made wine, but they had good size grapes.
For real! Wow! It seems like it would be a logical place yeah for…
Good orchard.
Yes, good orchard, volcanic soil.
The apples, some apples you cannot eat ‘em by yourself [gestures large apples].
You’re kidding!
Big ones.
Wow! Red apples, green
Green apples.
Hmm. You know when you go down below there now, just like where you’re saying and
where the Russians used to live. Do you remember seeing some of those, there’s like
three or four cement ovens like.
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:265