>>MAJOR FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM PROVIDED BY JAMES AND ABIGAIL CAMPBELL FAMILY FOUNDATION • OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS • PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS, AND THE HAWAII STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>LAHAINA IS KNOWN MOSTLY AS A WORLDWIDE TOURIST DESTINATION.

BUT THE TRAPPINGS OF ITS VIBRANT VISITOR INDUSTRY, THE STOREFRONTS AND CROWDS, CAN HIDE THE RICHNESS OF ITS PAST.

♪♪ TO REALLY FIND LAHAINA, ONE NEEDS TO LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>ALOHA.

I'M EDDIE KAMAE.

YOU KNOW, WHEN I VISITED LAHAINA IN 1999, A FRIEND OF MINE TOLD ME THEY WERE CLOSING THE PIONEER SUGAR MILL IN EIGHT DAYS.

AND IN THAT MOMENT, I DECIDED TO TELL THE STORY OF LAHAINA; THE REAL LAHAINA.

♪♪ ♪♪ >>EDDIE'S SEARCH FOR THE REAL LAHAINA BROUGHT HIM FACE-TO-FACE WITH WAVE, AFTER WAVE OF CHANGE.

HE FOUND THAT LAHAINA WAS ONE OF THE EARLIEST POLYNESIAN SETTLEMENTS IN HAWAII.

AS THE FIRST CAPITOL OF THE HAWAIIAN NATION, IT WAS THE EPICENTER OF SOME OF THE MOST TURBULENT PERIODS OF CHANGE.

ITS HISTORY IS SO SIGNIFICANT THAT IN 1962, LAHAINA WAS DESIGNATED A NATIONAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.

IT IS, AND WILL ALWAYS BE A SACRED HAWAIIAN PLACE.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ [SINGING] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>MY MOTHER COMES FROM LAHAINA.

MY GRANDMOTHER COMES FROM LAHAINA.

MY FATHER AND MY GRANDFATHER WENT TO LAHAINALUNA SCHOOL.

I ALSO MET MY WIFE HERE.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>MY GRANDMOTHER IS KAUHAI LIKUA OPUNUI.

DURING MY CHILDHOOD DAYS, MY MOTHER WOULD TAKE US DURING THE SUMMERTIME, TAKE US TO LAHAINA TO LAHAINA TO VISIT MY GRANDMOTHER.

AND MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A VERY RESERVED WOMAN.

SHE DIDN'T SPEAK ENGLISH, AND SHE WOULDN'T TALK TO US IN HAWAIIAN.

I WAS TOLD MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A DANCER FOR THE KING'S COURT; KING KALAKAUA'S COURT.

I REMEMBER THINGS DURING MY CHILDHOOD DAYS IN LAHAINA; THE TRAINS GOING BY LOADED WITH SUGARCANE, THINGS LIKE THAT, AND WE'RE STEALING THE CANE OFF THE CANE CARS AND EATING IT.

IT WAS LIKE CANDY TO US.

AND WE LOVED IT FOR ONE REASON; BECAUSE WE COULD GO SWIMMING AND HAVE FUN, AND PICK SUGARCANE, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

EVEN SELLING MANGOES OUT IN THE STREET AREA, YOU KNOW.

THAT WAS PART OF GROWING UP.

>>NOW, I'M ONLY THINKING, ♪♪ ♪♪ >>NOW, I'M ONLY THINKING, WELL, WHAT IS GONNA BE A SYMBOL THAT WOULD REMIND ME AND OTHERS ABOUT LAHAINA.

>>AS IT HAS FOR DECADES, THE PIONEER MILL SMOKESTACK TOWERS OVER LAHAINA, STANDING WATCH OVER GENERATIONS OF DREAMS AND WAVES OF CHANGE.

IT STOOD, AS ALWAYS, IN SILENT GREETING WHEN HAWAIIAN MUSIC LEGEND EDDIE KAMAE RETURNED TO LAHAINA IN 1999.

IT WAS ON THAT VISIT THAT EDDIE WOULD LEARN FROM HIS FRIEND JERRY KUNITOMO, THE OWNER OF BJ'S RESTAURANT, THAT THE GREETING REALLY MEANT FAREWELL.

PIONEER MILL WAS CLOSING ALMOST A CENTURY AND A HALF AFTER JAMES CAMPBELL AND HIS PARTNER HAD STARTED IT IN 1860.

CHANGE ONCE AGAIN WOULD CHALLENGE LAHAINA.

EDDIE WONDERED HOW THIS CHAPTER OF THE STORY WOULD UNFOLD.

HE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE MILL, RIGHT UP TO THE MANAGER'S OFFICE.

SO, I WENT THERE, KNOCKED THE DOOR.

HE SAYS, COME IN.

AND HE SAID, YES?

I SAID, I HEARD YOU WERE PHASING OUT IN EIGHT DAYS.

HE SAID, THAT'S TRUE.

HE SAID, TOMORROW IS GONNA BE THE LAST BURNING OF THE CANE IN WAINEE VILLAGE.

AND I DECIDED I'D LIKE TO TELL THE STORY.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ THERE WAS A HAOLE LUNA HE RIDES ON A BIG WHITE HORSE HE TOO MUCHEE PEKUPEKU KELA PILIPINO KELA PILIPINO HAPAI KO HUI: LAI TOODLE, LAI TOODLE, LAI O >>IT WAS COMMON KNOWLEDGE THAT TOURISM WAS A BETTER PRODUCT TO HAVE THAN THE SUGAR PLANTATION ON THE WEST SIDE.

THE CANE LANDS ARE OVERGROWN WITH WEEDS, AND IT'S NOT VERY PRETTY DURING THE SUMMERTIME WHEN EVERYTHING'S TURNED BROWN.

♪♪ HE TOO MUCHEE PEKUPEKU KELA KEPANI KELA KEPANI • >>THE PLANTATION ERA IS DONE.

IT'S CLOSED AND THERE IS NO SINGLE ORGANIZATION OUT THERE TO TRY AND PRESERVE ANY OF THE HISTORY.

♪♪ LAI TOODLE, LAI TOODLE, LAI O HE TOO MUCHEE PEKUPEKU KELA KEPANI ♪♪ ♪♪ >>I'M REALLY, REALLY SAD.

BECAUSE HAVE TO ADMIT THAT THE PLANTATION GAVE A LOT OF US WHO DIDN'T HAVE AN EDUCATION, GAVE US A CHANCE TO MAKE A LIVING, YOU KNOW, AND FINALLY BUILDING HOMES FOR US TO PURCHASE SO WE COULD AFFORD TO BUY A HOME, EVEN THOUGH THE MONEY WAS VERY SMALL; YEAH?

AND THEN, WE COVER THE SEEDS SO THAT IT WON'T MOVE WHEN THEY IRRIGATE THE FIELDS.

I WORKED EVERY INCH OF THIS GROUND, 'CAUSE I WORKED HERE FOR FORTY-THREE AND A HALF YEARS.

EVERY FIELD, I'VE WORKED.

I MEAN, I WALKED EVERY LINE, PLANTING AND ALL KINDS.

♪♪ ♪♪ >>THE PLANTING IS DONE • THE BUILDINGS DEMOLISHED.

THERE IS NOTHING LEFT OF THE PLANTATION ERA BUT MEMORIES.

♪♪ PLANTATION LIFE, MAIKAI [HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE].

♪♪ ♪♪ >>LAHAINA WAS A REAL PLANTATION TOWN.

EVERY SQUARE FOOT OF LANE EITHER HAD A PIECE OF SUGARCANE GROWING ON IT, OR THERE WAS A HOUSE ON IT.

THAT PERIOD OF TIME, EVERYTHING WAS DONE ON THE PLANTATION BY WAY OF HAND LABOR.

SO, THERE WERE THOUSANDS OF EMPLOYEES, AND THERE CAMPS THROUGHOUT LAHAINA TOWN.

THE CAMPS WERE PUT OUT FOR THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE THAT WERE BROUGHT HERE.

FOR INSTANCE, WHEN THE SPANISH PEOPLE WERE BROUGHT, THEY MADE A CAMP FOR THE SPANISH PEOPLE, FILIPINO PEOPLE, PORTUGUESE PEOPLE, THE JAPANESE CAMP.

BUT YOU ALREADY HAD THE HAWAIIAN PEOPLE HERE, SO THERE WASN'T A CAMP SET UP FOR THEM; THEY WERE ALREADY IN THEIR HOMES.

I REMEMBER TUTU FOLKS TELLING ME, YOU KNOW, IN OUR VILLAGE, JAPANESE, CHINESE, KOREAN, FILIPINO, PORTUGUESE, WE WERE ALL ONE.

WE WERE ALL HAWAIIAN, BECAUSE WE MINGLED, MARRIED, AND WE'RE ALL ONE.

EVERYBODY EATS EVERYBODY'S FOOD, AND CELEBRATE EVERYBODY'S SPECIAL DAY.

BUT BEFORE TIME, YOU NO NEED WORRY.

YOU GET PLENTY ALOHA FROM THE PEOPLE; THE PEOPLE WAS NICE BEFORE.

♪♪ ♪♪ >>MY PARENTS CAME TO MAUI IN 1903 FROM JAPAN.

IN THOSE DAYS, PEOPLE IN JAPAN, YOUNG PEOPLE IN JAPAN WERE TOLD THAT MONEY GROWS ON TREES IN HAWAII.

SO, MANY PEOPLE CAME.

SO, THAT'S WHEN THEY DECIDED THEY WANTED TO COME, TOO.

HOPE AS THEY MIGHT, THEY NEVER FOUND THE MONEY TREES.

BUT THEY STAYED ANYWAY, BY THE THOUSANDS, INCLUDING THE PARENTS OF FLORENCE HASEGAWA.

ALMOST ONE HUNDRED YEARS OLD, SHE STILL LIVES IN LAHAINA AS A MARRIAGE LICENSE REGISTRAR, WITH VIVID MEMORIES OF GROWING UP IN WAINEE VILLAGE, THEN KNOWN AS PUMP CAMP.

WE WERE POOR, BECAUSE THERE WERE SEVEN CHILDREN.

I WAS NUMBER TWO.

MY SISTER WAS OLDER THAN ME; SHE WAS BORN IN 1906, I WAS BORN IN 1908.

MY FATHER AND MOTHER BOTH WORKED IN THE PLANTATION.

WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, WE WALKED EVERYWHERE.

THERE WAS A WAGON, HORSE-DRAWN WAGON, ONE WAGON.

ONLY WHEN YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL OR IN AN EMERGENCY, SOMEBODY RIDE THE WAGON, ONE WAGON.

BUT OTHER THAN THAT, WE WALKED TO HOSPITAL, WE WALKED TO THE SCHOOL, WE WALKED TO THE CHURCH; WE WALKED EVERYWHERE.

ONLY THE-I USED TO CALL THAT BIG SHOTS.

THE BIG SHOTS; ALL THE HIGH MANAGERS AND SUPERVISOR, ALL THE CAUCASIAN BIG SHOTS, THEY HAD CARS.

OTHER THAN THAT, NOBODY ELSE HAD CARS.

I STARTED TO WORK FOR THE PIONEER HOSPITAL.

AND I REMEMBER THE PAY WAS LESS THAN THIRTY FOR ONE MONTH.

BUT THE MONEY MUST HAVE BEEN VALUABLE, BECAUSE EVEN THE FISHERMEN WON'T COME AND SELL FISH.

MAYBE A BIG AKU, MAYBE.

TEN CENTS.

[CHUCKLE] VERY CHEAP.

IT TOOK AN HOUR TO MAKE TEN CENTS; AN HOUR OF BACKBREAKING LABOR.

TEN HOURS, ONE DOLLAR.

THAT'S WHAT JOHN KAYA'S FATHER EARNED, DAY AFTER DAY.

WHETHER YOU CAN HAPAI KOU.

THAT MEANS CARRYING STALK CANE; BURNED STALK CANE, NOW, CARRYING.

SO, HE SAID, WELL, GIVE ME A TRY.

SO, THEY TOLD HIM, WELL, THE CONTRACT IS FIFTY CENTS A CAR.

FIFTY CENTS A CAR; RAILROAD CAR, NOW.

THOSE DAYS, THEY BURN THE CANE, THE MULE PULL THE RAILROAD CARS IN THE FIELD.

HAPAI KOU, MANUAL LABOR, ALL.

NEVER HAD CRANE.

SO, FIRST HE LOAD TWO CARS A DAY.

THAT'S FOUR THOUSAND POUNDS.

THAT'S TWO TONS; RIGHT?

ONE CAR IS TWO THOUSAND POUNDS OF RAW SUGARCANE.

ALL BLACK; YOU KNOW, THAT'S BURNED SUGARCANE.

AND HE LOAD TWO CARS; THAT'S BIG BUCKS, THAT'S DOLLAR A DAY.

>>AWAY FROM THE CANE FIELDS, FOOD FOR THE FAMILY CAME IN MORE TRADITIONAL WAYS, THROUGH HARD BUT FULFILLING WORK.

FISHING WAS OUR LIFE, ALMOST.

AND FISHING IS, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, ADD MORE CALLOUSES TO YOUR HANDS.

BETWEEN FISHING AND WORKING FOR THE PLANTATION, I WOULD RATHER GO FISHING.

>>USED TO GET A PIGPEN STRADDLING THIS DITCH OVER HERE.

THAT WAS THE MEAT ON THE TABLE.

I HAD A VEGETABLE GARDEN, I HAD TARO IN THE BACK OF MY YARD; YEAH.

I HAD FOUR TARO PATCHES; YEAH.

THERE'S A LOT OF TARO, BEANS, THERE'S OOPU, OPAE, YOU KNOW.

IT ALL DEPEND HOW YOU TAKE CARE.

AND WHEN YOU GO, YOU ALWAYS FIND SOMETHING THERE.

YOU WON'T STARVE; THAT'S FOR SURE.

THEY ALSO GREW SUGARCANE, FIRST FOR THEIR OWN USE, AND LATER TO SELL.

SMALL SUGAR MILLS WERE BUILT HERE AND THERE AROUND WEST MAUI.

EVENTUALLY, THE SMALL MILLS WERE COMBINED INTO ONE BIG OPERATION: PIONEER MILL COMPANY.

IT DOMINATED THE SUGAR INDUSTRY ON THE WEST SIDE AND LAHAINA.

WE ALL CAME FROM DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE PLANTATION.

GOING TO SCHOOL TOGETHER, WE ALL MET IN SCHOOL.

AND EVEN IF YOU CAME FROM WAHIKULI OR FROM OLOWALU OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, WE BECAME GOOD FRIENDS.

AND WE PLAYED SPORTS.

ALL THE CAMPS HAD THEIR OWN BASKETBALL TEAMS OR WHATEVER, SO WE USED TO GO TO DIFFERENT AREAS AND PLAY, AND THAT'S HOW WE BECAME CLOSER.

SPORTS BROUGHT THE TIGHTKNIT PLANTATION COMMUNITY EVEN CLOSER.

IT OFFERED OPPORTUNITIES OUTSIDE THE PLANTATION TO PEOPLE LIKE SHIGESHI WAKIDA.

IN THE 1940S, HE ORGANIZED ATHLETIC CLUBS FROM TEN CAMPS INTO ONE.

OVER THE YEARS, HE TURNED PASTIME INTO PASSION AS A TENNIS TEACHER FOR LAHAINA'S CHILDREN.

BUT MORE THAN TENNIS, HE TAUGHT THEM PLANTATION LIFE VALUES.

MY DAD, YOU KNOW, COMING FROM JAPAN, TO ME, HE ALWAYS STRESSED EDUCATION, ACADEMIC.

AND HE STRESSED THAT SO MUCH THAT I HAD TO STUDY HARD.

AND WHEN THE DAY CAME WHEN HE HAD TO TELL ME IN JAPANESE, YOU KNOW, SON, I'M SORRY, YOU HAVE TO START WORKING; I GET HARD TIME FEEDING ALL THE KIDS.

AND SO, I STOPPED GOING SCHOOL, AND START WORKING AT PIONEER MILL COMPANY.

♪♪ ♪♪ >>YOU KNOW, AFTER I QUIT SCHOOL AND STARTED WORKING, I FIGURED, GEE, I CANNOT BE DOING THIS ALL YEAR ROUND, ALL MY LIFE.

SO, I TOOK A CORRESPONDENCE COURSE, THEN I STARTED WORKING IN THE MILL.

SEE?

AND I WAS WORKING IN THE WELDING DEPARTMENT, YOU KNOW MAINTENANCE.

I BECAME A SUPERVISOR IN THE FACTORY.

>>THAT'S ARTHUR ASHE.

YEAH.

HE PASSED AWAY, YOU KNOW.

AND HE CAME TO ROYAL LAHAINA, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ISLAND HOLIDAYS TOURNAMENT AT THAT TIME.

YOU KNOW.

I SPENT HOW MANY HOURS EVERY YEAR, HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF TRAINING THE KIDS, ALL FOR LOVE.

I DO IT FOR LOVE; I DON'T CHARGE THEM NOTHING.

[INDISTINCT CONVERSATION] >>FOR FIFTY YEARS, SHIGESHI HELPED SHAPE THE CHILDREN OF LAHAINA AT MALU ULU OLELE PARK.

YOUR STUDENTS DON'T HAVE TO WORRY.

YEAH.

BECAUSE THEY HAVE THE INGREDIENTS TO GO OUT INTO THIS WORLD; RESPECT AND KINDNESS, AND EDUCATION.

YEAH.

I RECEIVE THAT ALWAYS FROM THE PARENTS; THEY REALLY APPRECIATE.

THEY COME DOWN HERE, SAY, MR. WAKIDA, I DON'T KNOW WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU; YOU KNOW, YOU DO SO MUCH FOR THE KIDS IN LAHAINA.

I'VE BEEN WITH SHIGESHI FOR PROBABLY ABOUT TWENTY-FIVE TO THIRTY YEARS COMPETITIVELY THROUGHOUT THE JUNIOR CIRCUITS AND STUFF.

AND HE MADE IT SEEM THAT WINNING WASN'T EVERYTHING, AND JUST TEACH YOU TO BE A HUMBLE PERSON, AND THAT YOU DID NOT NEED TO STEAL, YOU DID NOT NEED TO FIGHT.

I'VE BEEN HERE NOW FOR FIFTY YEARS, AND I AM TIRED.

AND THE YOUNGSTERS LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S YOUNGER THAT CAN BE BETTER IN TRAINING THEM UP.

NOBODY CAN DO IT FOR LOVE; NO ONE.

ALL RIGHT, UP ON THE NET, SARA.

IN 2003, SHIGESHI WAKIDA DIED.

FOR EDDIE, IT WAS LIKE LOSING A BROTHER.

THEY HAD SHARED SO MANY MEMORIES OF TIMES PAST IN OLD LAHAINA.

>>THERE'S A GRAVEYARD FOR PLANTATION WORKERS NEXT TO MALA WHARF.

IT'S A PLACE WHERE TIME PAUSES, A PLACE TO STOP, AND LET WHAT USED TO BE BECOME REAL ONCE MORE.

>>YOU HEARD THAT SOFT, SWEET SOUND.

PEOPLE, THE WAY THEY ADDRESS ONE ANOTHER, PEOPLE THAT CARES FOR ONE ANOTHER.

AND THAT'S WHAT I SAW WHEN I WAS GROWING UP.

EVERYBODY CARED; EVERYBODY ALOHA ONE ANOTHER.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>THAT CARING EMBRACES THE VARIETY OF CULTURES THAT FOR CENTURIES HAS BEEN PART OF LAHAINA.

THE DIVERSITY THAT SPRANG FROM PLANTATION LIFE IS STILL STRONG AND CHERISHED TODAY.

[TAIKO/SINGING] ♪♪ ♪♪ >>BUT THE PLANTATION ERA MARKED JUST ONE WAVE OF CHANGE IN LAHAINA'S LONG HISTORY.

AT MALU ULU OLELE PARK, EDDIE ACCIDENTALLY STUMBLED ONTO CLUES TO ANCIENT STORIES THAT HISTORIANS TODAY ARE BEGINNING TO UNEARTH.

THAT PLACE IS ALWAYS EMPTY.

I COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT, BUT WE WENT OUT THERE WITH THE KIDS, PLAYING BASEBALL.

AND WHEN IT WAS MY TIME ON BAT, I WENT UP AND HIT THE BALL.

AND I STARTED TO RUN TOWARDS THE FIRST BASE, AND FOR NO REASON AT ALL, I COULDN'T FIGURE THAT OUT, I STARTED TUMBLING, AND ROLLING ON THE RED DIRT.

AND I NEVER REACHED FIRST BASE; I WAS OUT.

BUT WHAT BOTHERS ME IS, HOW DID I FALL?

NOBODY TRIPPED ME; I JUST FELL, YOU KNOW, AND ROLLED.

AND IT BOTHERED ME FOR YEARS, AND I COULDN'T FIGURE IT OUT, UNTIL I WENT TO LAHAINA AND FOUND OUT WHY I FELL.

BECAUSE IT'S A SACRED GROUND.

♪♪ >>SACRED, BECAUSE BURIED BELOW THE BASEBALL DIAMOND IS MOKUHINIA POND, THE HOME OF THE MOO GODDESS KIHAWAHINE, DESCENDED FROM THE FAMOUS CHIEFLY LINE OF PIILANI.

IN THE CENTER OF THE POND WAS A SMALL ISLAND NAMED MOKUULA.

THAT WAS THE HOME OF KAMEHAMEHA III.

LAHAINA HAS ALWAYS BEEN SACRED, AND CONTINUES TO BE SACRED, BECAUSE THE MANA OF THE GENERATIONS BEFORE ARE MAINTAINED THERE.

MANA BEING THAT SPIRITUAL ESSENCE THAT IS IN ALL THINGS.

IT WAS SO SACRED THAT CANOES IN ANCIENT TIMES PASSING IN FRONT OF LAHAINA WOULD HAVE TO LOWER THEIR SAIL, AND PADDLE BY, AND KUNOU, BEND OVER TO SHOW RESPECT FOR THAT SACRED LAND.

[CHANTING] >>THE MANA IS STILL THERE; DILUTED, NEGLECTED, BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN.

[CHANTING] >>KAMEHAMEHA III, KAUIKEAOULI, RULED FROM MOKUULA BETWEEN 1837 AND 1845.

IT WAS A TURBULENT TIME, AS WAVE AFTER WAVE OF CHANGE SWEPT OVER THE NEW KINGDOM.

WHEN HE WAS THERE, HE WAS ABLE TO DRAW UPON THE ANCESTRAL CONNECTIONS TO THE POND, TO KIHAWAHINE, TO THE PAST, AND TO HIS GENEALOGY.

SO, TO BE THERE ON MOKUHINIA POND, ON MOKUULA ISLAND, WAS TO BE IN THE REALM OF HIS GODS, BE IN THE REALM OF HIS PEOPLE.

IT WAS A PLACE THAT HE COULD REGAIN HIS STRENGTH AS A HAWAIIAN.

>>KAMEHAMEHA III CAME IN AS A YOUNG FELLOW.

HE RULED THE LONGEST, LIVED THE LONGEST OF THE HAWAIIAN CHIEFS.

AND HE WENT THROUGH THE GREATEST CHANGES.

IN THE SPAN OF ABOUT FIFTY YEARS, SUCH A TREMENDOUS CHANGE OCCURRED INTO THIS SMALL ISLAND NATION.

WE HAVE A CHANGING OF RELIGION, FROM A PANTHEON OF GODS TO THE CHRISTIAN ONE GOD.

WE HAVE THE COMING OF COMMERCE WITH WHALING, INFLUX OF PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE WORLD, WE HAVE THE DECLINE OF A PEOPLE FROM PERHAPS CLOSE TO THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND TO NO MORE THAN EIGHTY-TWO THOUSAND, THE COMING OF EDUCATION AND READING, AND WRITING, ALL IN THIS SPAN OF FIFTY YEARS.

THAT'S ONE LIFETIME.

ONE LIFETIME, AND ALL OF THESE CHANGES, WHICH COULD HAVE TAKEN SEVERAL LIFETIMES TO HAPPEN ONLY OCCURRED IN ONE.

♪♪ ONCE MORE, WE ARE WAFT BY THE NORTHERN GALES A-BOUNDING O'ER THE MAIN ♪♪ >>LIFE-ALTERING CHANGE CAME WITH THE ARRIVAL OF WHALING SHIPS.

BY 1841, SO MANY FOREIGNERS WERE COMING TO LAHAINA.

THE HAWAIIAN WAY OF LIFE WAS TURNED UPSIDE DOWN.

LAHAINA WOULD HAVE BEEN PERFECT IF THE WHALERS CAME ONCE, AND LEFT.

UNFORTUNATELY, THEY CAME, AND THEY CAME, AND THEY CAME.

AND WHAT HAPPENED IS LAHAINA BECAME THE REST SPOT FOR ALL OF THE WHALING SHIPS THAT WERE OUT IN THE PACIFIC.

IT CHANGED LAHAINA FROM A SLEEPY LITTLE HAWAIIAN VILLAGE TO A BOOMTOWN OF TAVERNS, CHEAP HOTELS, MARKETPLACES WHERE THEY COULD BRING THEIR LONGBOATS IN AND PICK UP FRESH WATER, FRESH SUPPLIES, HOGS, MELONS, VEGETABLES, FRUIT.

THEY GAVE NO CONCERN TO THE NEEDS AND THE WANTS OF THE PEOPLE.

ALL THEY WANTED WAS TO TAKE WHAT THEY COULD; THE WOMEN, THE LANDS, THE FOODS.

THERE'S PROBABLY ABOUT AS MANY BARS ON FRONT STREET NOW AS THERE WERE THEN.

IT WAS CALLED ROTTEN ROW, AS A MATTER OF FACT.

♪♪ DOWN TO OLD MAUI ♪♪ >>FROM THE DOUBLE-HULLED CANOE TO THE WHALING SHIP WAS MAJOR.

THOSE PEOPLE WERE FROM ANOTHER PLANET.

ALL OF THESE SHOCKS, TIDAL WAVES OF CHANGE, OF IDEAS, OF PERCEPTION ROLLED IN.

WHALING SHIPS CAME SMALL, BUT BY THE 1850S, THERE WERE FIVE HUNDRED AT ANCHOR.

WHALES WERE NOT SPOKEN OF AS ENDEARMENT; THEY WERE SPOKEN OF AS COMMODITIES.

AND THAT PERHAPS IS THE BIGGEST WAVE THAT STRUCK LAHAINA; EVERYTHING IS A COMMODITY.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>LAND WAS REDUCED TO A COMMODITY DURING THE REIGN OF KING KAMEHAMEHA III.

THAT RESOURCE, SO PRECIOUS TO HAWAIIANS, WAS NOW SOMETHING TO BE BOUGHT AND SOLD.

AND INCREASING DEMAND BY FOREIGNERS FOR LAND CULMINATED IN THE GREAT MAHELE.

>>PORING OVER 19TH CENTURY LAHAINA LAND GRANT MAPS, EDDIE HOPED TO PINPOINT THE LAND OF KAUHAI LIKUA OPUNUI, HIS GRANDMOTHER.

>>OKAY; THIS IS THE OPUNUI PROPERTY.

LAND COMMISSION AWARD 6801, APANA 2.

THIS AREA OVER HERE, WHERE THIS TREE IS, ONE [INDISTINCT] TREE, THIS IS WHERE OPUNUI, WHICH IS KAUHAILI LIKUA'S PROPERTY.

AND JUST ADJACENT TO THAT PROPERTY THERE'S AN AREA OVER HERE WITH SOME ROCKS.

WAS LIKE ONE PA, ONE ENCLOSURE, ONE HOUSE ENCLOSURE.

>>THE GREAT MAHELE WAS TO ENCOURAGE PRIVATE LAND OWNERSHIP, WHICH THEN ENCOURAGED CONTINUATION OF LIVING ON SAME PIECE OF LAND.

>>SOME FAMILIES ENDED UP KEEPING THEIR LAND FOR GENERATIONS; OTHERS SOLD TO SUGAR INTERESTS.

THE SUGAR PLANTERS WERE AGGRESSIVE IN ACQUIRING AND DEVELOPING THE LAND.

>>SUGAR WAS THE NEXT BIG INDUSTRY AFTER THE WHALING INDUSTRY, AND SUGAR REMAINED KING FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME UNTIL THE 1960S.

>>ONCE, THERE HAD BEEN A COMPLEX NETWORK OF WATERWAYS, CANALS, MARSHES, AND PONDS.

SUGAR PLANTATIONS MEANT THE END OF THE WETLANDS OF LAHAINA, AND ALL THEY HAD THEY HAD NOURISD.

LAHAINA WAS A PLACE THAT COULD SUPPORT HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE, BECAUSE IT WAS GOOD LIVING.

THE WATERS FROM UP IN THE MOUNTAINS CAME DOWN INTO LAHAINA.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, AT ONE TIME, THEY CALLED IT THE VENICE OF THE PACIFIC.

WITH THE DIVERSION OF THE UPLAND WATERS FOR THE SUGAR PLANTATION, THE LOWER PORTIONS OF LAHAINA BEGAN TO DRY UP.

WHEN THE LOWER PORTIONS OF LAHAINA BEGAN TO DRY UP, SO DID MOKUHINIA POND.

SO, IT BEGAN TO BE STAGNANT, AND IT BEGAN TO HAVE MOSQUITOES, AND IT NO LONGER WAS THE BEAUTIFUL PLACE THAT THE ALIIS LOVED.

>>MY GRANDFATHER, GEORGE FREELAND, CAME TO LAHAINA IN THE LATE 1890S.

HE BUILT THE PIONEER INN, WHICH STILL EXISTS TODAY.

HE CONSTRUCTED THAT BUILDING IN 1901.

>>IN 1915, THIS TOWN OF LAHAINA WAS A BUSTLING PLANATION TOWN, AND THE PLANTATION MANAGER, I UNDERSTAND AT THAT TIME, HIS NAME WAS HARRY WEINZHEIMER.

AND HE AND MY GRANDFATHER WERE TALKING ONE DAY, AND MR. WEINZHEIMER SAID, YOU KNOW, WHERE CAN I PUT UP A BALLPARK FOR ALL THE EMPLOYEES TO PLAY BALL AT?

AND THEY CAME UP WITH THE IDEA; LET'S GO FILL IN THAT POND THAT'S OVERGROWN WITH WEEDS AND GENERATING MOSQUITOES.

THEY DID FILL IT IN, THEY DID COVER IT OVER, AND IT DID BECOME A PARK. '

THAT WAS WHERE EDDIE STUMBLED AND FELL RUNNING TO FIRST BASE, THE BALLFIELD IN THE PARK ATOP THE SACRED GROUND OF MOKUHINIA POND, THE HOME OF GODDESS KIHAWAHINE, DAUGHTER OF KING PIILANI, AND MOKUULA, THE ISLAND HOME OF KAMEHAMEHA III.

[CHANTING] >>THAT ISLAND IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE A CAVE UNDERNEATH THERE, WHERE THAT SPIRIT WAS ALWAYS PRESENT.

SO, THIS WAS THE MECCA, THE SACRED OF SACRED, THE HOLY OF HOLY.

KEOPUOLANI, SACRED WIFE OF KAMEHAMEHA I, AND MOTHER OF KAMEHAMEHA II AND III, WAS OF PIILANI LINEAGE.

THAT LINKED HER TO THE GODDESS KIHAWAHINE, AND THE ISLAND OF MOKUULA, AND ADDED TO THE MANA OF THE SITE.

THIS WAS A PLACE WHERE HIGH CHIEFS WORK WITH HEAVENLY BEINGS.

>>TODAY, THE HERITAGE OF THE ISLAND FINALLY IS BEING UNEARTHED.

A CITIZENS' GROUP, THE FRIENDS OF MOKUULA, COMMISSIONED BISHOP MUSEUM TO PERFORM THE FIRST ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY IN 1993.

I WAS A PRODUCT OF UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII; I'M A CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGIST.

THE FIRST TIME THAT I WENT TO THE ACTUAL SITE, I WAS EXTREMELY EXCITED.

TO BE ON THE PROPERTY AND LOOK AROUND, AND GET THAT REAL CONTEXT WAS INCREDIBLE, AND I SPENT MANY HOURS WALKING THAT BASEBALL FIELD, ENVISIONING WHAT IT MUST LOOK LIKE.

AND IT WAS INCREDIBLY EXCITING.

IT HAS BEEN BURIED FOR AT LEAST NINETY-TWO YEARS, AND WHEN WE WERE UNCOVERING FEATURES, WE WOULD FIND THINGS SUCH AS A WOODEN PIER, TOTALLY INTACT.

OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, IT'S HIGH AND DRY RIGHT NOW; IT'S A LONG WAYS AWAY FROM THE WATER.

WE FOUND A STONE WALL STILL INTACT.

APPARENTLY, THEY SIMPLY FILLED UP TO THE LEVEL OF THE ISLAND, AND THEN JUST COVERED IT OVER WITH ABOUT A METER OR SO OF FILL.

NOW, THAT SERVES AS A CAP, IRONICALLY, TO PROTECT EVERYTHING UNDERNEATH THAT.

SO, NOTHING WAS GRADED, AS FAR AS WE CAN TELL.

NOTHING WAS PULLED DOWN, THAT EVERYTHING THAT WAS THERE IN 1914 STANDING ON THE SURFACE IS INTACT.

YOU'RE STANDING RIGHT NOW ON MOKUULA ISLAND, WHICH ENCOMPASSES ONE ACRE, INCLUDING PART OF THE PARKING LOT THAT YOU'RE ON.

AND IT STRETCHES ALONG THIS STONE WALL AND REACHES OUT INTO THE PARK UNTIL ABOUT THIRD BASE.

[CHANTING] [CHANTING] >>AS PEOPLE COME TO WITNESS THE HISTORIC ELEMENT OF KAUIKEAOULI AND ALL THE CHALLENGES HE HAD AT THAT TIME, OUTSIDE HIS FRONT DOOR WERE SAILORS AND WHALERS, AND WESTERNIZATION OCCURRING.

BUT YET, HE WAS STILL CHARGED WITH KEEPING WHAT IS IMPORTANT FOR HIS PEOPLE.

WE STILL DO THAT TODAY.

HISTORY HAS A VOICE.

IF YOU'RE PAYING ATTENTION, YOU CAN HEAR IT.

TO ME, MOKUULA IS ONE OF THOSE VOICES.

[CHANTING] >>NEXT TO MOKUHINIA POND STANDS WAIOLA CHURCH.

ORIGINALLY CALLED WAINEE, IT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST CHURCHES BUILT BY MISSIONARY SETTLERS.

WAINEE IS BUILT ABRIDGING THAT SACRED POND.

AND IT WAS AT ONE TIME ONLY SACRED THINGS WERE THERE.

SOME KEY FIGURES IN THE KAMEHAMEHA OHANA HAD BEEN INTERRED ON MOKUULA.

THE MONUMENTS AT NEARBY WAIOLA CHURCH STAND AS A REMINDER OF THEIR INFLUENCE AND MANA.

[CHANTING] >>ANOTHER ENDURING LEGACY OF THE ALII IN LAHAINA IS EDUCATION.

IN 1823, HOAPILI, APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF MAUI BY KAMEHAMEHA I, GRANTED A LARGE TRACT OF LAND TO THE MISSIONARIES FOR THE PURPOSE OF CREATING A WESTERN STYLE SCHOOL, ONE OF THE MANY WAVES OF CHANGE BROUGHT TO LAHAINA BY THE MISSIONARIES.

LAHAINALUNA WAS ESTABLISHED BY THE MISSIONARIES, AND MOST DEFINITELY IS THE PRIDE OF LAHAINA.

IT IS THE FIRST SCHOOL THAT WAS BUILT IN HAWAII, IT WAS THE FIRST SCHOOL BUILT WEST OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS.

PEOPLE WOULD SEND THEIR CHILDREN FROM CALIFORNIA OVER TO HAWAII, IN ORDER TO GO TO SCHOOL.

♪♪ ♪♪ >>MY FATHER WENT TO LAHAINALUNA SCHOOL.

IN 1912, HE GRADUATED; 1909, HE WENT THERE.

AND HE MET MY MOTHER THERE.

>>YOU KNOW, [INDISTINCT] THEY HAD A PRINTING PRESS THERE.

SO, MY FATHER LEARNED PRINTING, WORKED DOWNTOWN AT A PRINT SHOP.

>>LAHAINALUNA WAS A PIONEER IN ADOPTING 19TH CENTURY PRINTING PRESS TECHNOLOGY.

THE SCHOOL GOT A PRESS IN 1834, AND USED IT TO PRINT THE FIRST HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE NEWSPAPER.

IT WAS THERE THAT THE TEACHERS HAD THE FORESIGHT TO REQUEST THAT HAWAIIAN CULTURAL INFORMATION BE BROUGHT TO THE SCHOOL.

THEY WERE ABLE TO RECORD IT IN NEWSPAPERS, IN PRIMERS, AND IN BOOKS.

SO, LAHAINALUNA WAS OUR CENTER OF EDUCATION.

HAWAIIANS EXCELLED IN THE NEW EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM.

DURING THE MONARCHY, LAHAINALUNA GRADUATES WERE HIGHLY REGARDED AND FILLED KEY GOVERNMENT POSITIONS.

MANY ROSE TO PROMINENCE: DAVID MALO, SAMUEL KAMAKAU, AND JOHN PAPA II.

THEY HELD IMPORTANT POSTS IN THE HAWAIIAN KINGDOM.

THEIR WRITINGS ARE SOME OF THE MOST VALUABLE HISTORICAL RESOURCES ABOUT SOCIETY, GOVERNMENT, AND LIFE IN 19TH CENTURY HAWAII.

THEIR LEGACY IS WHAT WE HAVE INHERITED, AND WHAT WE CONTINUE TODAY: WISDOM, PERSEVERANCE, WORK.

THE ROOTS GROW DEEP, TRADITIONS GROW DEEP, AND IT'S THOSE TRADITIONS THAT ARE PASSED ON FROM ONE GENERATION TO THE REST.

IN 1849, THE AMERICAN BOARD OF FOREIGN MISSIONS TRANSFERRED LAHAINALUNA TO THE HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT.

AFTER THE TURN OF THE CENTURY, THE SCHOOL SHIFTED TO A STRONGER FOCUS ON VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.

AT THAT TIME, WAS ONLY BOYS THAT BOARDED HERE AT LAHAINALUNA, FOR THEM TO LEARN HOW TO WORK, FOR THEM TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE BY THEMSELVES.

AND THEN, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THEM, YEAH, THEY'RE CRYBABIES, BUT AFTER A WHILE, THEY GROW UP.

>>WHEN I FIRST CAME, IT WAS STRICTLY FARMING, AGRICULTURE.

YOU KNOW, PLANT VEGETABLES, PULL WEEDS.

IN FACT, WE SPENT MORE TIME PULLING WEEDS.

THIS WAS POULTRY FROM HERE, ALL THE WAY UP.

YOU KNOW, WE RAISED SOMEWHERE ABOUT SIX THOUSAND CHICKENS OR MORE.

IN 1923, LAHAINALUNA BECAME PART OF THE TERRITORIAL PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.

BY THIS TIME, IT HAD BROADENED BEYOND VOCATIONAL TRAINING TO EMPHASIZING ACADEMICS AND PREPARING STUDENTS FOR COLLEGE.

MY FATHER GRADUATED FROM LAHAINALUNA.

HE STARTED HERE BOARDING WHILE HE WAS IN THE SIXTH GRADE, AND HE DID GRADUATE IN 1926.

SO, WE HEARD ALL ABOUT LAHAINALUNA.

AND WE'RE SUCH A CLOSE GROUP ALSO IN LAHAINA, BECAUSE MOST OF US WENT TO SCHOOL TOGETHER; GRADE SCHOOL ON UP THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.

WEST MAUI IS A COMMUNITY BY ITSELF, AND WITH ALL THE MULTICULTURAL BACKGROUND THAT WE GREW UP WITH AND CAME HERE, MENTIONED ABOUT RICH TRADITIONS.

AND WITH THAT, A SENSE OF PRIDE.

WE ALL WORKED TOGETHER, EVEN IN SPORTS, SCHOOL, AND WHATEVER THEY TAKE PART IN.

SO, I THINK THAT'S WHAT LAHAINALUNA IS ALL ABOUT, YOU KNOW.

NO MATTER WHAT RACE YOU ARE, ALWAYS WORK TOGETHER.

WE HAVE THESE TRADITIONS, AND AS PROGRESS COMES IN, WE TRY TO BALANCE THAT BY TEACHING ALL OF OUR STUDENTS THE SENSE OF GIVING, SENSE OF SHARING, AND THE SENSE OF CONTINUITY.

♪♪ ♪♪ 'O KA MALU 'ULU O LELE (NO E KA 'OI) >>OUR ALMA MATER TALKS ABOUT HOW THE TORCH OF LEARNING CAN NEVER, EVER BE EXTINGUISHED, EVEN BY THE FIERCEST WINDS OF KAUAULA.

♪♪ ♪♪ ME KA UA KILIKILIHUNE (A O HALONA) HO'OPULU I KE OHO O KA PALAI • ♪♪ >>THOSE WINDS, IT IS SAID, RETURN EVERY FIFTY YEARS AND ARE SO STRONG, THEY HAVE DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS, SUCH AS THE ORIGINAL CHURCH AT WAINEE.

BUT LAHAINALUNA SCHOOL REMAINS UNSCATHED.

IN 2006, THE SCHOOL MARKED ITS 175TH ANNIVERSARY, CELEBRATING ITS TRADITIONS, HERITAGE, AND SPIRIT.

♪♪ • I KA MAKANI KAUA'ULA ♪♪ >>MANY PEOPLE THINK OF LAHAINA ONLY AS A TOURIST TOWN.

WHEN YOU DRIVE THROUGH THERE, ALL YOU CAN SEE ARE VISITORS AND ALL THE THINGS THAT CATER TO VISITORS.

HOWEVER, LAHAINA HAS BEEN HOME FOR GENERATIONS UPON GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE.

>>THE PEOPLE IN LAHAINA ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT LAHAINA, ITS PEOPLE, THE TOWN NOT LOSING ANY OF THIS BEAUTIFUL AREA.

AND ALSO, BRINGING THE OLD PEOPLE BACK TO LAHAINA TOWN, SO PEOPLE CAN COME FROM ALL THE PARTS OF THE WORLD AND COME TO A SPECIAL PLACE IN HAWAII AND EXPERIENCE THE LIFESTYLE, THE PEOPLE, AND THE CULTURE.

K'MAKA KA 'IKENA I'HI'ILAWE.

KA PAPA LOHI MAI A'O MAUKELE K'MAKA KA 'IKENA I' HI'ILAWE.

KA PAPA LOHI MAI A'O MAUKELE ♪♪ >>CULTURAL TOURISM IS IMPORTANT, BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY VISITORS.

YOU KNOW, WEST MAUI GET TWENTY THOUSAND RESIDENTS THAT LIVE THERE, BUT ABOUT A HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND VISITORS EVERY MONTH.

♪♪ 'A'OLE!

>>BUT IF ALL OF THEM CAN UNDERSTAND WHAT IS IMPORTANT FROM THE CULTURE, AND THEY ALL CAN BECOME AMBASSADORS OF THAT PRESERVATION, FROM THAT PRESERVATION BECOMES THE PERPETUATION.

♪♪ HE HIWAHIWA AU NA KA MAKUA.

A HE LEI I' HI'ILAWE NO PUNA KE 'ALA [SINGING] ♪♪ >>HAWAIIAN MUSIC IN MY RESTAURANT, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK; I FOUND THAT IT REALLY ADDED AN ELEMENT TO MY RESTAURANT.

VISITORS FROM ACROSS THE WORLD WOULD COME IN AND GO, I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THIS GUY IS SAYING, BUT THIS FEELS GOOD.

♪♪ [SINGING] >>TOURISTS LOVE THIS.

THEY LOVE THE TASTE OF LAHAINA FESTIVAL, THEY LOVE HALLOWEEN PARADE, THEY LOVE THE CANOE FESTIVAL.

♪♪ ♪♪ >>FOUR YEARS AGO, MYSELF AND A FEW OTHERS GOT TOGETHER TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE EROSION OF THE KAMAAINA BASE HERE IN THE METROPOLITAN AREA HERE ON MAUI, LIKE LAHAINA.

THE CRITICAL ISSUE WAS THAT WITHOUT KAMAAINA IN THE TOWN ITSELF, THE ALOHA SPIRIT IN AND OF ITSELF STARTS TO ERODE.

LAHAINA LUNA ♪♪ I AM GOING TO THE ISLAND OF THE VALLEY • ♪♪ >>THERE'S A DELICATE BALANCE BETWEEN THE NEEDS OF KAMAAINA AND THE NEEDS OF TOURISM.

THE CHALLENGE IS TO MAINTAIN THE BALANCE.

KEEP DEVELOPMENT REASONABLE AND SUSTAINABLE, STRENGTHEN THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CULTURE, THE LAND, AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE, CULTIVATE THE SENSE OF ALOHA FOR THOSE WHO VISIT.

♪♪ THEY SAY THAT MAUI N' KA 'OI AND I AGREE.

'CAUSE MAUI NO' KA 'OI IS THE ONLY PLACE FOR ME.

THAT'S WHERE YOU'LL FIND ME, DOWN BY THE • ♪♪ ♪♪ >>WHAT THE CELEBRATION OF CANOES HAS DONE IS, WE'VE ASSEMBLED SOME OF THE GREATEST CARVERS THROUGHOUT ALL OF THE PACIFIC REGION.

AND WE SIT TOGETHER, AND IT'S THEIR GREATEST DESIRE TO SHARE SECRETS WITH EACH OTHER.

>>THROUGHOUT HISTORY, LAHAINA WAS AN IMPORTANT MARKER FOR NAVIGATORS WHO GUIDED POLYNESIAN CANOES ON VOYAGES ACROSS THE PACIFIC.

THIS IS A FISHING CANOE.

THE DESIGN IS BASED ON A DOLPHIN.

ARE YOU REALLY GOING TO USE IT?

YEAH; IF I DON'T USE IT, I DON'T MAKE IT.

[POUNDING] >>HEY, YOU'RE DOING.

YOU'RE A NATURAL.

[POUNDING] >>I BELIEVE THE WAKA IS THE HEART OF POLYNESIA.

A WAKA IS A COMMUNITY IN ITSELF, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED.

IT'S GOT THE KORERO ON IT, WHICH IS THE HISTORY.

IT'S GOT THE PROFESSIONALS FOR NAVIGATION ON IT, IT GOT THE PROFESSIONALS FOR TRADITIONAL MEDICINE.

IT IS A COMPLETE COMMUNITY.

AND BECAUSE THE WAKA IS THE HEART OF POLYNESIA, I CAN'T RESIST COMING.

THE SHARING AMONG THE CARVERS OF ALL THESE COUNTRIES SORT OF MESHES THE CULTURES TOGETHER.

AND IN SO DOING, THERE'S CONSTANT REVELATIONS OF BONDING IN LANGUAGE, IN GODS AND GODDESSES, AND VALUE STRUCTURE.

[CHANTING] [HAWAIIAN LANGUAGE] >>KEEPING THE PRIDE BACK INTO A HISTORIC TOWN OF LAHAINA, THE PERPETUITY OF LAHAINA'S CULTURE CAN BE FURTHER INVESTIGATED AND DISCOVERED, AS OPPOSED TO ERODED.

[CONCH] >>AND AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW, THE CHILDREN WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO LEARN FROM AND TO MAKE THE DISCOVERIES FOR THEIR CHILDREN, AND THEIR GRANDCHILDREN.

[APPLAUSE & CHEERS] ♪♪ >>ALOHA, MAUI.

♪♪ ♪♪ >>LAHAINA IS A JEWEL.

FRESH WATER, OCEAN PORT, WEST MAUI MOUNTAINS SHIELDING IT.

SPECIAL PLACE.

PROBABLY EVEN MORE SPECIAL BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE THERE, THAT GREW UP THERE.

[SINGING] ♪♪ >>I'VE SEEN A LOT OF CHANGES, BECAUSE THOSE DAYS, I LEARNED HOW TO SWIM IN THE FRONT STREET AREA.

AND THE LEANING COCONUT TREE, I STILL REMEMBER, AND WE'D GO UP THERE AND JUMP OFF.

I STILL REMEMBER THE TIMES.

BUT TODAY, IT'S DIFFERENT.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>WELL, UNCLE, AS YOU SAY ALL THE TIME; CHANGE WILL COME.

AND LAHAINA HAS CHANGED SO, SO MUCH, STARTING WITH THE HILLSIDE AND ALL THE CANE THAT WAS THERE JUST NOT LONG AGO, IT SEEMS LIKE.

NOW, IT'S ALL GONE.

NOW, THAT CANE FIELD ALL GET HOUSES, AND NOT HOUSES THAT WE CAN LIVE IN; HOUSES BUILT FOR PEOPLE THAT ALREADY GET MONEY, THAT NO NEED WORK.

AND SO, THE KIDS OF THE PLANTATION WORKERS DON'T HAVE HOMES THAT THEY CAN AFFORD.

THE SADDEST IMPACT IS, THE LEGACY IS BROKEN, THAT FAMILY, THE HOME, YOU KNOW, THE MANGO TREE EVEN, THAT USED TO BE THE PIKO OF THE FAMILY; THAT LEGACY IS BROKEN, THE VALUE STRUCTURE IS GONE.

IT MAKES YOU WONDER WHAT GOING HAPPEN TO OUR CHILDREN.

♪♪ >>MY TIME, YEAH, THEY USED TO HELP EACH OTHER.

LIKE US GUYS, WE GO FISHING, WE COME HOME, WE GIVE THE NEIGHBOR SOME FISH, SOME HEE.

OH; THEY COME BACK, THEY GIVE, YOU KNOW, THE KAUKAU, YOU KNOW.

THAT'S HOW WAS BEFORE.

EVERYBODY FAMILY.

FAMILY; YEAH, EVERYBODY, THEY CALL EACH OTHER FAMILY.

BUT EVEN THOUGH THE SKIN DIFFERENT, BUT OHANA.

[CHUCKLE] TIMES CHANGING; STILL, YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO ATTACH THE LEGACY FROM THE PAST TO THE FUTURE.

IF YOU GOTTA INVENT WAYS TO DO IT, YOU GOTTA DO THAT TOO.

'CAUSE IT'S NOT OUT THERE.

YOU CANNOT SAY TO THE KIDS, GO LOOK.

MOST OF IT'S GONE.

YOU KNOW, THE LAHAINA TOMORROW PROBABLY NOT GONNA HAVE TOO MANY OF THOSE, GO THERE AND LOOK.

JUST LIKE MOKUULA.

I HOPE THEY ALL KNOW THE STORY OF KAUIKEAOULI, AND THE CHALLENGES.

BECAUSE WE'RE FACING THE SAME THINGS TODAY.

>>JUST AS THE SOUL OF LAHAINA IS ILLUMINATED BY ITS UNFOLDING LEGACY, EDDIE'S OWN JOURNEY WAS ONE OF PRECIOUS DISCOVERY.

IN HIS CONNECTION TO LAHAINA LAY A FAMILY JEWEL IN DANGER OF PASSING FORGOTTEN THROUGH THE YEARS.

THAT LONG-HIDDEN GEM REVEALED ITSELF TO BE A CULTURAL TREASURE.

I CAME TO LAHAINA LOOKING FOR SOMEONE THAT I HEARD ABOUT, THAT MY GRANDMOTHER TAUGHT AS A STUDENT, THE ONLY STUDENT.

HER NAME WAS EMMA SHARPE.

I WAS SO HAPPY TO FIND SOMEONE THAT KNEW MY GRANDMOTHER.

>>KAUHAI LIKUA, WHO LIVED NOT VERY FAR FROM US, USED TO BE ONE OF THE DANCERS IN KING KALAKAUA'S TIME.

I WENT WITH HER DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, WHO WAS A FRIEND OF MINE, SO WE WENT UP TO ASK HER.

SHE SAID, I'VE GIVEN THAT UP, BUT I'M A PRIEST NOW.

I'M A PRIESTESS, AND I HAVE ONLY THAT TO DO.

SO, I SAID, WELL, YOU BETTER TEACH ME THAT, BECAUSE WHEN YOU DIE, YOU'RE GONNA TAKE ALL THIS KNOWLEDGE WITH YOU, AND WHAT DO WE HAVE?

WE HAVE NOTHING.

SHE SAID, OKAY, I'LL TEACH YOU.

>>I SAID, ALSO, CAN I ASK YOU, BY ANY CHANCE, IS THERE ANY MATERIAL OF CHANTS OR SONGS THAT MY GRANDMOTHER WROTE THAT YOU HAVE, BY ANY CHANCE?

SHE SAYS, NO, EDDIE.

SHE SAID, YOU'RE TOO LATE.

I SAID, WHY?

SHE SAID, BECAUSE WHEN YOUR GRANDMOTHER DIED, ALL THE MATERIAL, ALL THE SONGS AND CHANTS, WERE BURIED WITH HER.

♪♪ >>YOUR GRANDMOTHER COMPOSED A LOT OF HULA SONGS.

AND SHE WAS A VERY GENTLE LADY; SHE WAS OLUOLU.

SHE GREETED PEOPLE WITH LOVE AND ALOHA.

AND I WOULD LIKE VERY MUCH TO CARRY ON THAT WAY.

UH-HUH.

AND BEING THAT'S YOUR GRANDMA, YOU SHOULD CARRY ON THAT WAY.

KANANAKA ♪♪ 'O KA P' MAI A KA MA'A'A ♪♪ >>THE JOURNEY'S END REVEALED WHAT EDDIE HAD SOUGHT; A GRACEFUL, MEMORABLE MOMENT OF HAWAIIAN POETRY SET TO SONG.

♪♪ HANA 'OE A KANI PONO HANA 'OE A KANI PONO ♪♪ >>"KANANAKA" IS THE NAME OF THAT NOHO DANCE.

WHO WROTE IT?

YOUR GRANDMA.

THAT'S HER SONG.

SHE COMPOSED IT, AND SHE DID IT.

♪♪ I KA 'EHU'EHU O KE KAI I KA 'EHU'EHU O KE KAI NANI WALE IA PU'E ONE I KA NALU HE'E MAI A'O KANANAKA KAHI A M'KOU A E HE'E AI I KA 'EHU'EHU O KE KAI I KA 'EHU'EHU O KE KAI 'O KA MAHINA HIKI ALOALO HO'OLA'ILA'I ANA L' I N' PALI P'HINA WEHIWEHI I KE ONAONA KONI MA'E'ELE I KE KINO KONI MA'E'ELE I KE KINO NANI WALE IA PU'E ONE I KA NALU HE'E MAI A'O KANANAKA KAHI A M'KOU A E HE'E AI I KA 'EHU'EHU O KE KAI ♪♪ >>BY DISCOVERING HIS GRANDMOTHER'S SONG, EDDIE HAD RECONNECTED WITH HIS CHILDHOOD DAYS IN LAHAINA.

HE NOA NO KANANAKA ♪♪ ♪♪ >>THROUGH TENNIS LESSONS FROM SHIGESHI WAKIDA, LAHAINA CHILDREN DISCOVERED THE PLANTATION VALUES OF HARD HONEST WORK AND RESPECT FOR THEIR ELDERS.

BY LEARNING THE HISTORY OF THEIR SCHOOL, EACH NEW CLASS OF LAHAINALUNA STUDENTS DISCOVERS ITS RICH TRADITION OF EDUCATION.

THROUGH CULTURAL TOURISM, EVENTS SUCH AS THE FESTIVAL OF CANOES, RESIDENTS AND VISITORS ALIKE WILL DISCOVER ANCIENT ART FORMS.

BY UNEARTHING THE REMNANTS OF MOKUHINIA POND AND MOKUULA ISLAND, ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND HISTORIANS WILL HELP FUTURE GENERATIONS DISCOVER THE MANA OF THE SITE, AND THE LEGACY OF KAUIKEAUOLI.

UA MAU KEA O KA AINA I KA PONO; THE LIFE OF THE LAND IS PERPETUATED IN RIGHTEOUSNESS.

LAHAINA REMAINS A SACRED HAWAIIAN PLACE NOT BECAUSE OF WHAT HAS BEEN BUILT UPON IT, BUT BECAUSE OF WHAT IS IN THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE.

♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ I'M GOING TO MAUI TOMORROW [HUMMING] I'M GOING TO MAUI TOMORROW TO MARRY TAMARA MALONE NOTHING WOULD BE FINER' THAN TO BE IN LAHAINA TO MAKE TAMARA MY OWN I'LL SMILE ON THE ISLE OF THE VALLEYS AND LIVE A LIFE OF DELIGHT 'CAUSE I'M GOING TO MAUI TO MARRY TAMARA TOMORROW UNLESS I GET LUCKY TONIGHT [HUMMING] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ >>MAJOR FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM PROVIDED BY JAMES AND ABIGAIL CAMPBELL FAMILY FOUNDATION • OFFICE OF HAWAIIAN AFFAIRS • PACIFIC ISLANDERS IN COMMUNICATIONS, AND THE HAWAII STATE FOUNDATION ON CULTURE AND THE ARTS.