DAVID FUERTES: IN KOHALA, HISTORICALLY, WHEN THERE WAS AN ISSUE, PEOPLE WOULD COME TOGETHER.

WHEN KAMEHAMEHA WAS BEING BORN AND THEY WANTED TO PROTECT HIM FROM THE HIGH CHIEF, ALAPAI, THIS WHOLE ENTIRE COMMUNITY CONSPIRED AGAINST THIS HIGH CHIEF AND WANTED TO KEEP THIS BABY ALIVE BECAUSE THEY KNEW THAT THIS BABY WOULD BE A SPECIAL KING SOMEDAY.

SO ALL OF THESE AHUPUAA, LIKE, NOW, THIS AHUPUAA THAT YOU, YOU'RE ON IS CALLED HOEA AND HOEA MEANS "THE ARRIVAL OF," "THE WELCOMING OF."

THE MOM GAVE BIRTH AT KOKOIKI, AND THEN CAME TO HOEA AND THEN HAWI AND ALL OF THE NAMESAKES IS ABOUT THE TRAVEL OF THIS YOUNG LAD TO BE WELL-PROTECTED FROM THE KING ALAPAI.

THAT'S THE START OF OUR COMMUNITY COMING TOGETHER.

CAROLYN CLASSEN: MY PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS WERE JAPANESE IMMIGRANTS, AND THEY CAME HERE IN 1892 BEFORE THE KINGDOM FELL, AND IT WAS AT THE HALAULA CAMP.

FRED CACHOLA: THERE WAS HOEA CAMP, HAW.. AND CAMP IS•JUST, IT'S NOT WHERE YOU PITCH UP A TENT, YOU KNOW.

MOST PEOPLE WILL CALL THAT A CAMP.

BUT IN OUR GROWING UP, CAMP WAS SIMPLY A COLLECTION OF HOMES AT DIFFERENT PARTS OF NORTH KOHALA.

CONNIE CHUN: THERE WAS A HILL FROM THE MAIN ROAD BECAUSE WE LIVED IN•THE CAMP WAS LITTLE BIT BELOW THE MAIN ROAD, SO A GRASSY HILL.

WE USED TO GO UP AT THE TOP OF THE HILL WITH THE CARDBOARD AND THEN RIDE THEM DOWN THE HILL.

WE NEVA HAD TV, OKAY?

WE HAD TELEPHONE, BUT NO TV.

ONE HOUSE HAD TV.

SO ALL THE CAMP KIDS USED TO GO UP TO THE SOLOMON HOUSE AND WATCH TV WITH THE COUPLE.

AND I THINK WE GOT ALONG WITHOUT A LOT OF T..

BUT WE BECAME GREAT BECAUSE OF THOSE, BECAUSE WE NEVA HAVE.

THAT'S HOW COME WE BECAME STRONG.

VIOLET OLIVER: WE DID GROW UP A LITTLE UNUSUAL.

UNLIKE THE OTHER CHILDREN WHO GREW UP IN THE LITTLE CAMPS, WE GREW UP ALL ALONE IN THIS DITCH CABIN THREE MILES OFF THE HIGHWAY.

BACK IN 1952 WHEN I WAS BORN, IT WAS ALL COVERED WITH CANE FIELDS AND MY PARENTS WERE IN CHARGE OF FLUMES NUMBER FOUR, FIVE AND SIX ON THE KOHALA DITCH.

AND BETWEEN THE FLUMES, THERE WERE TUNNELS, YEAH, THAT THEY HAD BUILT BY BLASTING.

AND MY FATHER HAD BEEN PART OF THAT, WHERE THEY HAD BLASTED OUT THE TUNNELS SO THAT THE WATER COULD FLOW THROUGH.

THEN THE FLUMES WERE BUILT TO CONNECT THE TUNNELS BECAUSE IT WOULD GO OVER THE STREAMS.

GLORIA TEO: I GREW UP ALL .. LEFT HOME WHEN I GRADUATED•COLD WATER.

AND SO WHEN THEY HAD SNOW ON MAUNA KEA AND THEN I WOULD TAKE A BATH IT WAS A QUICK SHOWER.

I MEAN, JUST QUICK, QUICK AND OUT OF THERE.

USUALLY ON WEEKENDS, LIKE FRIDAY EVENING OR SATURDAYS, I WOULD TAKE, YOU KNOW, GO BOIL WATER.

THAT'S DEPENDING IF I WANT TO GO CHOP WOOD.

KEALOHA SUGIYAMA: THE HOUSES BECAUSE OF ALL THE ROCKS THAT YOU CAN SEE WAS BUILT ON "POST AND PIERS."

AND TO GET TO THE HOUSE IT BEGAN HERE WITH THE BOARDWALK.

SO THE BOARDWALK CONNECTED TO ALL THE HOUSES.

FRED CACHOLA: THE MAIN HOUSE WAS A KITCHEN AND TWO BEDROOMS.

TWO BEDROOMS AND A PARLOR.

AND IN THE KITCHEN THERE WAS ALMOST LIKE A PLACE, LIKE A FIREPLACE, WHERE YOU COULD ACTUALLY BUILD A FIRE TO COOK.

AND THERE WAS NO GAS, YOU KNOW?

ZAP, BOOM.

NO!

OURS WAS A THREE-BURNER KEROSENE STOVE WITH KEROSENE AND A TOP FOR THE POTS.

AND ON THE SIDE WAS A GALLON OF KEROSENE THAT FED THROUGH THE WICK AND LIGHT AND BOOP!

YOU GOT A FIRE.

AND WE HAD ELECTRICITY, BUT IT WAS VERY SIMPLE.

LIKE THIS WOULD BE LIKE ONE ROOM AND THERE'D BE ONE LIGHT.

CLICK!

THAT ILLUMINATED THE ROOM.

YOU WENT TO THE NEXT ROOM.

IT WAS ONE LIGHT.

CLICK!

WE DIDN'T HAVE AN OUTHOUSE.

WELL, IT WAS LIKE THE HOUSE WAS HERE.

AND THEN THERE WAS OUR NEIGHBOR HERE, ANOTHER NEIGHBOR HERE, AND ANOTHER NEIGHBOR HERE.

AND IN BETWEEN THOSE FOUR HOUSES WERE FOUR... SHALL I CALL THEM BATHRO.. KEALOHA SUGIYAMA: ALL THE BOARDWALK CONNECTED TO THE CENTER, WHICH WAS THE TOILET.

AND THAT BECAME THE FOCAL POINT FOR, AT THE END OF THE DAY, THE WOMEN WOULD COME UP AND SIT ON THE TOILET STEPS AND TALK STORY.

GLORIA TEO: EVERYBODY KNEW EVERYBODY.. NEVER LOCKED OUR DOORS.

IN OAHU, I GOT ROBBED TWICE.

BUT HERE, ALL MY LIFE, GROWING UP IN HERE IN KOHALA, WE NEVER, EVER LOCKED THE DOORS ONCE AND WE NEVER GOT ROBBED.

IN FACT, ANYBODY THAT CAME TO OUR HOUSE, IF WE WEREN'T HOME, THEY WOULD LEAVE A NOTE OF THEIR BRINGING FISH FOR US OR WHATEVER.

THEY OPEN OUR FREEZER, REFRIGERATOR, STICK IT IN THERE, OR THEY LEAVE THINGS, WHATEVER THEY BROUGHT TO SHARE WITH US.

AND THEY LEAVE A LITTLE NOTE.

CONNIE CHUN: WHEN YOU GO SOMEBODY HOUSE, YOU CLEAN UP.

WELL, FIRST OF ALL, YOU DON'T GO EMPTY-HANDED, OKAY?

YOU BRING SOMETHING AND THEN WHEN YOU GO OVER THERE, YOU HELP.

YOU HELP WHATEVER GOT TO BE DONE.

YOU DON'T JUST GO TO EAT AND THEN SPLIT.

YEAH, YOU HELP, YOU WASH DISHES.

JOE CARVALHO: THE THING IS THAT TOGETHERNESS, HOW WE TOOK CARE OF EACH OTHER, NO MATTER WHERE YOU CAME FROM, WHAT CAMP YOU CAME FROM, ALTHOUGH YOU HAD SOME COMPETITION AS FAR AS SPORTS ARE GOING.

BUT EVERYBODY MAKES SURE THEY HELP EACH OTHER.

NO MATTER WHERE YOU WENT.

IF YOU NEEDED HELP, SOMEBODY WILL HELP YOU.

AND WE WERE ALL BROUGHT UP•AND YOU KNOW, THIS IS A HARD ONE•THAT WHEN I WAS GROWING UP SEEING, IS THAT IF YOU HAD A PACK OF GUM AND THERE WERE TEN GUYS OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE IN A BUS, YOU GOTTA SHARE WITH EVERYBODY, RIGHT?

SO YOU DON'T BRING IT OUT.

YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT, WHATEVER.

IF YOU'RE GOING TO SHARE, YOU MAKE SURE YOU CAN SHARE WITH EVERYONE WHATEVER YOU HAVE.

YEAH, THAT WAS INSTILLED IN US.

AND THEN YOU'RE NOT FIRST.

OTHER PEOPLE FIRST.

AND IF YOU GET LEFTOVERS.

THEN YOU CAN HAVE SOMETHING.

SO THAT WAS BASIC KOHALA.

BASIC.

ELAINE HOKAMA: WE HAD PIGS IN THE BACK SO IT WASN'T A PIGGERY OR ANYTHING, MORE FOR HOME USE AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO WE WOULD GO AROUND THE COMMUNITY AND PICK UP PIG SLOP.

SO MY MOTHER WOULD CHECK WITH SOME PEOPLE, WE WOULD GIVE THEM BUCKETS.

SO WE HAD TO GO THERE.

YOU KNOW, MAYBE ABOUT THREE TIMES A WEEK AND PICK UP PIG SLOP.

AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU'RE LIKE 13, 14 YEAR OLD GIRL, YOU DON'T WANT TO BE SEEN DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

BUT WE HAD TO DO IT.

AND WE HAD CHICKENS.

MY MOTHER WOULD KILL THE CHICKENS IN THE BACK AND THEN WE WOULD HELP THEM PULL FEATHERS AND EAT CHICKEN, BOILED CHICKEN LEGS AND ALL THAT.

BETSY TAMANAHA: MOST OF THE FOOD WAS IN OUR BACKYARD.

I REMEMBER MANOA LETTUCE, CARROTS.

EARL SHIMABUKURO: AND MY RABBI.. BETSY TAMANAHA: AND HE HAD RABBITS THAT HE FED AND MOM SLAUGHTERED THEM.

AND THEN YOU KNOW WHAT SHE ALWAYS HAD?

SHE HAD A BED OF PEANUTS, SO WE HAD SNACKS.

LARRY KANDA: I REMEMBER ONE TIME WHEN WORKERS WENT ON STRIKE, SO THERE WAS NO INCOME COMING.

THE UNION WOULD FORM WHAT THEY CALL A SOUP KITCHEN.

THEY BUILT TENTS AND THEY WOULD MAKE STEW.

SO YOU GO THERE WITH THE POT, YOU FILL UP YOUR POT WITH THE STEW AND THE FOOD, AND THAT WAS YOUR ONE MEAL A DAY.

AND IT WASN'T EASY BECAUSE MOST OF OUR FAMILIES DIDN'T HAVE THAT KIND OF EXTRA MONEY.

IF YOU LOOK AT KOHALA, WHEN I GREW UP, THE SUGAR COMPANY WAS ALMOST PERPETUATING LIFE HERE.

NINETY PERCENT OF THE ADULTS WORKED FOR THE COMPANY IN VARIOUS DEGREES, FROM MANAGEMENT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO PLANTING CANE.

SO THE COMPANY WAS THE LIFELINE FOR KOHALA AND WE GREW UP IN THAT KIND OF ATMOSPHERE.

SO WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR OUR SUGAR COMPANY.

CAROLYN CLASSEN: OUT OF EIGHT CHILDREN, I'D SAY PROBABLY SIX OF THEM LEFT SCHOOL, LIKE EARLY SEVENTH, EIGHTH GRADE, EVEN EARLIER, MAYBE, TO WORK ON THE PLANTATIONS.

MAYBE THE TWO YOUNGEST, INCLUDING MY FATHER, MAY HAVE FINISHED KOHALA HIGH SCHOOL, BUT THAT WAS COMMON BACK THEN BECAUSE THEN EVERYBODY NEEDED THE MONEY.

SO YOU KNOW, WHEN THE KIDS COULD WORK, THEY WENT TO WORK.

HOPE KEAWE: THE MILL USED TO BLO.. O'CLOCK WHEN PAU HANA.

IT STARTED AT WHAT, SEVEN IN THE MORNING•THE MILL WOULD BLOW AGAIN.

THE WHISTLE.

IT'S AMAZING.

WE USED TO WATCH, IN FACT, MY UNCLE WITH HIS GRADER PICK UP ALL THE CANE AND PUT IT IN A CANE TRUCK.

JOHN KEAWE: YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE BY TH.. FRED CACHOLA: I REMEMBER THERE WAS A WHISTLE THAT BLEW.

BIG STEAM WHISTLE.

LOUD.

YOU COULD HEAR IT FROM THE PLANTATION MILL.

YOU COULD HEAR THAT WHISTLE BLOW, PSHEW!

AND ALL THE PLANTATION WORKERS WOULD GET UP AND GO TO WORK.

AND SOME WENT ON CANE TRUCKS.

THEY WENT TO THE FIELDS.

MY FATHER WORKED IN A MILL AND HIS JOB WAS TO BOIL THE SYRUP INTO THE RIGHT CONSISTENCY WHERE THE CRYSTALS WERE BEING MADE AND THEY HAD THESE HUGE VATS.

BRAD BALLESTEROS: MY DAD, HE WAS THE TABLE C..

OPERATOR OR WHATEVER, BUT HIS JOB WAS TO WATCH THE CANE TRUCKS COME IN AND HE WOULD TELL THEM WHEN TO UNLOAD IT ON THE TABLE AND THEN WHEN THEY WOULD•"OK NUFF, THAT'S ENOUGH."

AND THEN HE WOULD FEED THE TABLE INTO THIS CONVEYOR BELT THAT CAME UP ALONGSIDE HIM AND INTO THE MILL.

AND RIGHT NEXT TO HIM ON THE OTHER SIDE OF CORRUGATED ROOFING, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS, LIKE, A WATER THAT WASHED ALL THE MUD FROM THE CANE AND THERE WAS, LIKE, THESE BIG KNIVES THAT SPUN AROUND RIGHT NEXT TO HIM.

AND THEY WOULD CHOP UP THE CANE AND THEN IT WOULD CONTINUE INTO THE MILL.

BACK IN THOSE DAYS, YOU KNOW, I GUESS LIABILITY WASN'T THE MAIN CONCERN.

I WOULD JUST WALK IN THE MILL AND GO UP TO WHERE MY DAD WAS WORKING AND HE WOULD LET ME OPERATE THE TABLE AND HE WOULD GET ALL EXCITED WHEN I FED TOO MUCH CANE INTO THE CONVEYOR BELT BECAUSE IT COULD STOP THE WHOLE OPERATION IF TOO MUCH WENT IN.

SATURNINO CARPIO: I STARTED AT $1.25 PER HOUR.

PER HOUR!

$1.25.

THE KNAPSACK IS A FOUR-AND-A-HALF GALLON CONTAINER.

YOU FILL IT UP WITH A HERBICIDE, OR AS WE CALLED IT, POISON, AND THEN YOU GO AND SPRAY WHATEVER GRASS IS GROWING BETWEEN THE SKEIN.

THEY HAVE SEVERAL GANGS OF SPRAYERS.

THEY FILL UP THEIR CAN, AND PUT THEM ON THEIR SHOULDER, GO INTO THE CANE, ONE AFTER THE OTHER.

AFTER HALF OF A DAY, MY SHOULDERS START ACHING.

THE FOLLOWING DAY, I DON'T FEEL LIKE GETTING UP FROM BED, YOU KNOW.

MY MOM TELL ME, "WHAT?

YOU STILL WANT TO GO BACK TO WORK OR NOT?"

SO I SAID, "I'M GOING."

BUT I KEEP ON THINKING OF THE SMALL LITTLE MAN THAT IF HE CAN CARRY THAT FOR A WHOLE DAY, WHY CAN'T I?

ELSIE CARPIO: WELL, THAT OLD MAN WAS TATA CIBIO.

SATURNINO CARPIO: YEAH.

ELSIE CARPIO: HE WAS ONE OF THOSE MEN THAT WENT BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES.

MELVIN YANOS: THEY USUALLY CAME ON A TEN.. CONTRACT, AND AFTER TEN YEARS, THEY HAD THEIR RETURN TRIP PAID FOR BY THE PLANTATION.

AND SO SOME OF THEM WOULD GO BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES AND SOME OF THEM WOULD STAY.

IF THEY WERE SINGLE, MOST LIKELY THEY WENT BACK TO THE PHILIPPINES, COLLECTED THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY PENSION AND RESIDED THERE VERY COMFORTABLY.

BUT THEN IN THE CASE OF MY PARENTS, THEY WERE MARRIED IN THE PHILIPPINES AND THEY CAME HERE AND THEY RAISED THEIR FAMILY HERE.

IN YOUR CASE, TATA ALDO WAS A SINGLE MAN FOR MANY YEARS AND AT SOME POINT LATER IN HIS LIFE HE DECIDED IF HE WANTED A FAMILY AND WENT BACK AND MET YOUR GRANDMOTHER, NANA MARTINA.

AND THEY GOT MARRIED AND SHE WAS WHAT IS CALLED "ORDERED" INTO THIS COUNTRY FROM THE PHILIPPINES.

MARTINA MANUEL: YOUR DADDY GO WORK AND ONLY ME IN THE HOUSE AND I DON'T KNOW YET WHAT IS GOING ON.

AND THEN WHEN I HEAR THE HELICOPTER, LOOK LIKE IT STAY ON TOP MY HOUSE.

OH, MY GOD, WHAT IS THAT?

AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE DAD COME HOME, HOW COME THAT HELICOPTER LOOK LIKE IT COME DOWN ON TOP MY HOUSE?

NO, THAT IS THE ONE THAT THROW THE... THAT THROW THE FERTILIZER.

YEAH.

BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE SUGARCANE, YOU NO CAN GO INSIDE BECAUSE ROUGH THE LEAVES.

YOU NO CAN GO INSIDE.

BRAD BALLESTEROS: YOU KNOW WE HAD KIND OF HAD FREE RUN OF THE MILL.

I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS OKAY, BUT NOBODY STOPPED US SO WE WOULD BE ABLE TO WALK AROUND AND, YOU KNOW, WHERE THE CANE, THE RAW SUGAR WOULD COME DOWN, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD GO OVER THERE AND WE WOULD KIND OF EAT SOME THAT WAS KIND OF LIKE ON THE SIDE THAT KIND OF SPILLED OVER.

AND YEAH IT WAS A GOOD TIME, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, YOU COULDN'T, YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO DO THAT IF THE MILL WAS IN OPERATION TODAY.

BUT BACK IN THOSE DAYS, IT WAS LIKE SOMETHING TO DO.

THAT'S WHAT OCCUPIED OUR TIME.

CAROLYN CLASSEN: SO I REMEMBER EVERYBODY BEING BUSY.

YOU KNOW, THE CANE HAUL TRUCKS WERE ALWAYS HAULING THE SUGAR TO THE MILL.

EVERYTHING REVOLVED AROUND THAT ONE SUGAR COMPANY.

AT ONE POINT, I HEARD THAT KOHALA HAD TEN SUGAR COMPANIES, BUT BY THE TIME WE WERE KIDS, IT WAS ONLY THAT ONE KOHALA SUGAR.

BUT EVERYTHING WAS DEPENDENT ON ONE ECONOMY AT THAT TIME.

THERE WAS NO TOURISM.

REALLY.

I MEAN, PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW THAT POLOLU VALLEY EXISTED.

SATURNINO CARPIO: OUR BIG SUPERVISOR COME TO PICK ME UP AND HE SAID, "THE UNION IS HAVING A MEETING WITH THE SUGAR COMPANY.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF MEETING, BUT THEY TOLD ME TO PICK YOU UP."

I WAS THE SECRETARY THEN, SO WE WENT UP WITH HONOLULU GUYS, THE BIG SHOTS FROM CASTLE AND COOKE WERE THERE WAITING FOR THE UNION GUYS TO ARRIVE.

THAT'S WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED THAT THE PLANTATION GONNA PHASE OUT.

IT WAS A SAD DAY FOR EVERYBODY.

AFTER THE MEETING.

EVERYBODY WENT, YOU KNOW, NOT BELIEVING WHAT THEY JUST HEARD.

BOYD BOND: SUGAR HAD DOMINATED OUR ECONOMY FOR, YOU KNOW, OVER A HUNDRED YEARS.

SUGAR WAS KING.

THE REASON WE BECAME A STATE WAS SUGAR•WELL, NO MILITARY•BUT SUGAR.

TERRITORY, ANYWAY, TO CONTROL SUGAR PRICES.

AND WHEN KOHALA SUGAR CLOSED IN '75, WE WERE THE FIRST ONE.

AND IN THE TEN YEARS AFTER KOHALA CLOSED, HALF THE MILLS AND PLANTATIONS IN THE ISLANDS WERE GONE.

A POPULATION OF AROUND 5,000•I FORGET THE EXACT NUMBER.

IN LESS THAN TEN YEARS, MAYBE FIVE YEARS, THE POPULATION HAD DROPPED TO MORE LIKE 3,000, A LITTLE LESS THAN THAT, WITH PEOPLE HAVING TO LEAVE TO GO FIND WORK.

JOE CARVALHO: YEAH I REMEMBER THAT WAS BIG TIME FOR MY... BIG FIXES FOR MY DAD AND THEM.

YOU KNOW, THEY ALL DIDN'T HAVE ANY JOBS SET UP.

AND THE STATE WAS MAKING JOB CORPS-TYPE OF JOBS FOR THEM.

THAT'S HOW THE HEIAU AT MOOKINI GOT ALL CLEANED UP.

AND THE BIRTHPLACE, THEY HAD CLEANED ALL THAT UP AND PUT A NICE STONE WALL AROUND IT.

THAT WAS ALL PART OF THE JOB CORPS.

JOHN KEAWE: MY MOM SENT ME A NEWSPAPER FROM THE HILO TRIBUNE HERALD AND IT SAYS KOHALA THE DYING COMMUNITY, WAS THE FRONT PAGE.

AND IT WAS.

IT WAS A GHOST TOWN.

YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY WORKED ON THE PLANTATION.

EVERYBODY HAD HOUSING.

THEY HAD MEDICAL.

THE PLANTATION TOOK CARE OF THEM.

SO IT WAS A GHOST TOWN.

YOU COULD DRIVE THROUGH HAWI, NOT ONE CAR ON THE ROAD PARKED.

THE LITTLE STORES WOULD CLOSE, IF AT ALL THEY WOULD CLOSE EARLY AND IT WAS A GHOST TOWN.

CAROLYN CLASSEN: SO THE COMMUNITY WAS IN CRISIS.

PEOPLE WERE LOOKING FOR DIFFERENT JOBS.

YOU KNOW, PEOPLE WERE UNEMPLOYED.

THE HOTELS STARTED BEING BUILT IN SOUTH KOHALA.

SO A LOT OF PEOPLE HAD TO CHANGE THEIR JOBS FROM SUGAR PLANTATION WORKERS.

AND NOW THEY HAD TO•MOST OF THEM WENT TO WORK FOR THE HOTELS.

MAYDEAN BOWMAN: WHEN THE HOTEL OPENED, WE CAME IN TO DANCE HULA FOR THE MAUNA KEA BEACH HOTEL.

ALL THE WAY FROM HILO.

THEY DIDN'T HAVE VERY MUCH HALAUS.

THEY DIDN'T HAVE VERY MUCH HULA ANYWHERE.

MAUNA KEA OPENED, AND THAT'S WHEN KOHALA PEOPLE COULD COME WORK.

CAROLYN CLASSEN: SO THERE WAS A CHANGE AND TRANSITION IN THE SEVENTIES AND INTO THE EIGHTIES, AND I THINK THAT WAS ROUGH FOR KOHALA FOR A WHILE.

THEY WERE ALSO LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURAL METHODS TO REPLACE SUGAR OR TO FIND OTHER TYPES OF EMPLOYMENT.

BOYD BOND: WE TRIED PINEAPPLE, WE TRIED DAIRY FARMS, WE TRIED THINGS THAT WOULD BE LARGE EMPLOYERS, BUT REALLY, FOR ALL THE THINGS THAT SUGAR BROUGHT TO THE ISLANDS, MONO-CROPPING IS NOT A GOOD THING AND WE SHOULD BE MORE DIVERSIFIED, INSTEAD OF TRYING TO FIND A BIG THING AS THE SOLUTION, STARTING TO LOOK FOR A LOT OF LITTLE THINGS TO, YOU KNOW, SPREAD IT OUT.

HOPE KEAWE: A LOT OF GALLERIES OPENED, AND RESTAURANT OPENED.

THINGS BECAME EXPENSIVE IN THE LIVING.

AND YOU'RE LIKE, "WOW, WHERE IS THIS PEOPLE COMING FROM?"

YOU KNOW, THEY BUILT A HOUSE, THEY BUILT A NEW STORE RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET.

AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO STOPLIGHTS HERE.

THANK GOD FOR THAT.

BUT I WISH WE DID BECAUSE PEOPLE DRIVE CRAZY IN TOWN.

AND THE ROADS ARE SMALL.

SO, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE THE COFFEE SHOP ONE PLACE AND YOU HAVE THE RESTAURANT ACROSS.

BUT IN THOSE DAYS, WE WERE MOM AND POP STORES.

YOU KNOW, YOU COULD GO IN AND ASK QUESTIONS.

JOHN KEAWE: EVERYBODY STARTED WORKING AT THE HOTELS AND PEOPLE HAD MONEY.

AND SOONER OR LATER LIKE SHE SAID, LITTLE THINGS STARTED TO POP OPEN AND NOW YOU CAN'T FIND PARKING IN HAWI, WHICH IS GOOD.

SO, YEAH, A LOT HAS CHANGED, BUT THAT'S LIFE, RIGHT?

MAILE NAPOLEON: I LEARNED A LOT OF STUFF FROM MY TUTU, WHO WAS ABIGAIL KAOMEA ALAPAI AND SHE WAS THE GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF ALAPAI NUI.

AND HE WAS THE ONE THAT WANTED TO KILL KAMEHAMEHA WHEN KAMEHAMEHA WAS BORN.

AND SO MY GRANDMOTHER TOLD THE STORY OVER AND OVER AGAIN.

AND I HAD TWO OLDER SISTERS THAT USED TO SAY, "DON'T TELL THE STORY AGAIN.

WE ALREADY HEARD IT SO MANY TIMES."

AND MY MY GRANDMOTHER'S• "I HAVE TO TELL THE STORY BECAUSE I WANT YOU FOLKS TO LEARN AND I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER."

SO I TOLD HER, "JUST TELL THE STORY ONE MORE TIME.

I WANT TO HEAR BECAUSE I LOVE HISTORY."

AND SO THEN MY SISTERS WOULD GO ON PLAYING MARBLES ON THE GROUND AND I WOULD SIT AND LISTEN TO HER TELLING THE STORIES OVER AND OVER.

SO, I CAN REMEMBER, I'M 82 YEARS OLD, BUT I CAN REMEMBER STORIES FROM TWO YEARS OLD.

HOPE KEAWE: LISTEN, LISTEN TO YOUR KUPUNAS.

LISTEN TO THE LAND, LISTEN TO THE MOUNTAINS, TO THE WATER.

YOU KNOW, JUST THE SURROUNDINGS OF THINGS.

LISTEN.

MARCELO PAGAT: GO SEE YOUR PARENTS, YOUR GRANDPARENTS.

AND IF YOUR GREAT-GRANDPARENTS ARE STILL LIVING, GET A RECORD OF YOUR GENEALOGY.

HOW THEY CAME TO KOHALA.

AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH TO SETTLE DOWN, RAISING YOUR CHILDREN, PASS THAT ORAL HISTORY ON DOWN.

THAT'S MY REGRET, YOU KNOW.

I HAVE NO RECORD OF THAT, OTHER THAN WHAT WAS LEFT ME VERBALLY.

JOHN KEAWE: APPRECIATE WHO..

APPRECIATE THE PEOPLE AROUND YOU BECAUSE LIFE IS JUST A BLINK, MAN.

YOU KNOW, TELL THE PEOPLE YOU LOVE, YOU LOVE THEM BECAUSE THINGS CHANGE.

LIKE, WELL, A GUY TOLD ME, WHEN YOU'RE YOUNG, YOU STAY ON DOWN ON THE GROUND PLAY IN FRONT YOUR YARD AND YOUR PARENTS SITTING ON THE STEPS OF THE PORCH AND YOUR GRANDPARENTS UP ON THE PORCH.

SO HE TOLD ME, NOW WE'RE ON THE PORCH.

SO AFTER THAT, IT'S A NEW PICTURE.

JEFF COAKLEY: FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE.

AND THE OTHER THING IS YOU REALLY GOT TO TAKE THE TIME TO UNDERSTAND THE HAWAIIAN VALUES.

WHAT DOES LOHAKI MEAN?

HARMONY.

BUT IT MEANS MORE THAN THAT.

WHAT DOES OHANA MEAN?

FAMILY, OF COURSE.

WHAT DOES ALOHA... YOU GOT TO LEARN THOSE VALUES.

THEN YOU GOT TO LIVE IT.

BOYD BOND: KULEANA•PEOPLE CAN FIND THEIR OWN NICHE AND FILL IT AND THAT IT FULFILLS THEMSELF AS INDIVIDUALS AND ALSO SERVES THEIR FAMILY AND THEIR COMMUNITY, THEIR BIGGER FAMILY, IN SOME FASHION.

AND I THINK I'VE LEARNED HISTORY FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE FAMILY.

AND SO SHARING THAT HISTORY HAS BECOME MY KULEANA NOW.

I TRY• NO SENSE KNOWING THE STORIES IF YOU CAN'T SHARE THEM.

THE HEAT UNDER MY POT IS TO MAKE SURE THE STORIES GET SHARED AND THE HISTORY DOESN'T GET LOST.

DAVID FUERTES: SOME OF THE IMPORTANT VALUES OF KOHALA ARE SO IMPORTANT.

NUMBER ONE, WE GOT TO KNOW OUR ORIGIN.

NUMBER TWO, WE GOT TO KNOW WHAT WE BELIEVE IN, OUR VALUES.

NUMBER THREE, WE GOT TO KNOW OUR PURPOSE.

WHY ARE WE DOING IT?

BECAUSE VISION WITHOUT ACTION IS ONLY A DREAM.

ACTION WITHOUT VISION IS WASTE OF TIME.

BUT VISION PLUS ACTION CAN CHANGE THE WORLD.

AND THAT'S THE DESTINATION THAT WE WANT TO BE IN, THAT WE CAN SAY KOHALA WAS SPECIAL, IS SPECIAL, AND WILL BE SPECIAL IN THE FUTURE.

FRED CACHOLA: I'M A SON OF KOHALA AND I'M VERY PROUD OF THAT.

THE LOVE OF KOHALA PEOPLE, THE MANA, THE SPIRIT OF KOHALA, THE SPIRIT OF BEING FREE, AND THE SPIRIT OF BEING SUPPORTED AND LOVED BY MANY PEOPLE IS WHAT KEPT ME GOING.

IT WAS A VERY IMPORTANT PART.

AND I TOLD EVERYBODY I WAS SO PROUD TO BE..AND EVERYBODY KNEW THAT I CAME FROM KOHALA.

I MADE IT WELL KNOWN.

AND IT GIVES THAT KIND OF FEELING OF KOHALA STILL BEING KOHALA, THAT THE MANA, THE SPIRIT THAT NURTURED US GROWING UP IN KOHALA IS STILL THERE.

THAT SPIRIT OF KOHALA IS STILL THERE.

JEFF COAKLEY: THE BUILDINGS WILL CHANGE, BUT IF YOU KEEP THE VALUES, YOU'LL KEEP KOHALA, KOHALA.

BOYD BOND: KEEP KOHALA, KOHALA.

DAVID FUERTES: KEEP K.. CONNIE CHUN: THANK YOU TO.. KEEPING KOHALA, KOHALA.

FRED CACHOLA: HUCKLEBERRY FINN AND M.. HAD NOTHING ON THE KOHALA BOYS.

WE GREW UP BETTER THAN HIM ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER.

YOU KNOW, WE HAD THE CLEAN OCEAN.

WE HAD MILES OF OPEN LAND THAT WE COULD... AND WE WERE NEVER LOST.

NOT• WE WERE NEVER LOST.