Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

TB: Yes.
KM: Across here, that’s the
TB: The stables.
KM: Stable and where they kept the wagons I guess, yeah
TB: Yes.
KM: Carriages in there. See that building with the wood lattice across
TB: Yes, that’s a corn crib.
KM: That’s the corn crib there
TB: Yes.
KM: Oh. Were there a bunch of corn cribs around here
TB: Oh yes, all different sections.
KM: All different sections. They must have been growing hundreds and hundreds of acres of
corn
TB: Yes.
KM: All for feed
TB: Feed.
KM: Were there houses out in here
TB: Yes, there were houses here.
KM: And your school
TB: School was right by, see that pine tree right there
KM: The Norfolk pine
TB: Yes.
KM: Oh.
TB: Right below, the school, I planted that Norfolk pine.
KM: You planted that Norfolk pine
TB: Yes.
KM: About how long ago, you think
TB: Gee [thinking], in the ‘30s probably.
KM: Wow!
TB: In ‘38.
KM: You were going to school here
TB: Yes [chuckling].
KM: Wow, that is so neat. The other children that were up here with you [entering gate to
Waiki‘i Ranch] …were there Hawaiian children or was it mostly…
TB: Yes.
KM: Was Hawaiian
TB: Hawaiian, Japanese, mixed, mostly Hawaiians.
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