Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

KM: Okay.
BL: And then the other brother who’s name I misplaced at the moment.
KM: Not Bruce right
BL: Yes, it is Bruce.
KM: Bruce okay, Bruce.
BL: Yes, he’s a lawyer.
KM: Okay. Now, what year was this, the event you just described
BL: In 1977 or ‘78.
KM: And was the gate, but the gates were open then, you didn’t have to get out and open
gates right
BL: No, I did not have to get out and open gates.
KM: Right. You had to open gates in the earlier days yeah
AL: Yes, we had to open gates.
KM: Okay. So it was open, but you knew the location of, you know where you were basically.
BL: As I told him when I explained it to him, he knew immediately, because it was where the
turn was.
KM: The turn and the big pu‘u on the side
BL: Uh-hmm. And it was before…the road now has a turn from both angles you know.
KM: Yes, yes.
BL: And in my day, no.
KM: No more.
BL: It was just the turn to Saddle Road.
KM: Wow! Some event yeah
BL: Oh, really! I mean it’s, the only other chicken skin time that I had [chuckling] was down at
Maunakea Beach Hotel. I was terrified out of my skin, literally. But that’s another story
entirely.
KM: Okay. Thank you, may I please ask your full name
BL: Barbara Beacon Lee.
KM: Beacon Lee. You came to Hawai‘i from Oregon or…
BL: Yes. I came to Hawai‘i from Oregon. My father was a California rancher and my mother
was born in Hawai‘i. We always had relatives and friends in Hawai‘i.
KM: Who was your mother’s family
BL: Baldwin.
KM: The Baldwins, of Maui
BL: Yes.
KM: I see, so you’re in the Baldwin line. So kama‘äina, and that’s why there was so much
aloha.
BL: Yes.
Mauna Kea– “Ka Piko Kaulana o ka ‘Äina”
Kumu Pono Associates LLC
A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:378