Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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Mostly Hawaiians up here. Who were some of the Hawaiian families that were living up
here
The Lewi family. The Kealoha family. The Stevens family, I can’t think of the others.
So there were a number of families living up here
Oh yes.
About how many children were in the school, do you think
About thirty-five.
Thirty-five children. One room school-house
One room.
Who was your teacher up here
The teacher we had here was Buzzard, Mrs. Buzzard.
Mrs. Buzzard
Yes. And then Thelma Lindsey, she was the last one, that’s when they closed the school.
When did they close the school you think When you left
Yes, they closed the school in the ‘50s.
Oh, so you were older already
Yes.
This fire weed, terrible yeah.
Oh, yes.
It’s not as pilau as the gorse but…still, I guess the animals can’t eat it.
No.
This place like where the polo field or the pu‘u, that was all pasture or corn
Pasture.
We’ll find a place where we can…I going come down here by where the houses… The
houses used to be down this side right
Along the trees and up in here.
About how many houses do you think were
Probably had about almost…maybe, thirty.
Wow! This must have been really a…
Big, big place.
Yes. You see this stone oven like
Yes, that’s the Russians, they put it up.
The Russians
Yes.
It’s amazing, the Russians I guess came here.
Early.
Early. In 1900-ish like that.
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