Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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So, it would roll over the corn stalks and pull off the
Yes.
Wow!
That’s modern.
I wonder, maybe that’s what it is.
Could be.
There’s one of the old wagons you were talking about.
Yes.
See, there’s a couple of the old wagons like you were saying.
That’s right.
Big, heavy metal wheels.
Heavy, heavy.
And so, it would have a backboard like so they could…
Backboard. They hit the board then it goes in.
[chuckling] Wow, some job!
You know this is Number 6. After the corn pickers already had done their job, we go in
and shoot pheasants. Just like a chicken farm.
Oh, for real
Yes. And Waiki‘i had one of the old model pick-up trucks. Teddy Bell would tell you the
story, he’d drive the truck, and we’d be on both sides of the truck. As we shot the
pheasants we’d throw ‘em in the pick-up truck.
Wow!
[chuckles] Lot of birds.
Amazing, yes!
Amazing!
They must have loved those fields
Yes.
We’ll go up Ku‘ikahekili, up on top of the pu‘u first.
Oh. They have a road up there
Yes, there’s a road, just easy driving.
Is that right
Yes. We’ll just run over there first. And so on Saturday the 29 th when we meet.
Yes.
We going come right down in there [pointing to the club house].
Oh, down in here.
Right inside their building there.
Where did they have the Festival
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