Mauna Kea Oral History Appendix - Office of Mauna Kea Management

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You did, so you folks, the family, would interact, assist one another at times
More or less. Pu‘ulehua, before we had our Hualälai house, we used to go there for
summers. I think about maybe three or four years, when we were small kids. We used to
go up there and that belonged to Henry Greenwell. While we were there, my father would
help Arthur Greenwell over here, where Sherwood is. I know when Arthur went on
vacation a couple of times, my father would go help him check the area. So we worked
together.
Yes, that’s really neat. You guys as a family…
I know at Christmas time we’d all get together at my grandmother’s.
You folks have really spanned such a large area of the Kona, Kealakekua. You folks
would…all the mauka lands practically, and you leased Bishop Estate Keauhou and stuff
like that. It’s quite amazing, I was just showing Rally, this is a really neat map. Like you
were saying, this water pipeline here, the Parker Ranch pipeline.
Yes.
That you used to walk that and you had to go up and clean it and stuff like that
Yes.
Your days, walk feet, no four wheel drives
Walk feet.
[chuckling] This is all that dense forest area, is that right
That’s right.
Pretty awesome! Have you walked up in back of that forest at all with Rally Along the
Ditch Trail or anything
She’s up in a four-wheel drive.
Then we went from Morgan Brown’s side remember
Yes.
It’s beautiful along that ditch too.
Isn’t it awesome! You look down into the valley’s…
That is scary, hold your kids by the hind of their legs, you let them look over.
Awesome country!
[chuckling] I got plenty stories I could tell you. The pipeline had three intakes, and we
used to go up and clean the intake every so often after a heavy rain. One time we went
up and we found a dead pig in the stream. [chuckling] And the water comes down, we
drink the water but hey, people were more healthy then, then they are today [chuckling].
That’s right, isn’t that funny…I guess.
It’s awful.
Yes. [chuckling]
Well, when they had a big storm rain we used to tie a tobacco bag around our faucet.
That’s right.
Then you’d look and see.
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A Collection of Oral History Interviews (HiMK67-050606) A:55