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Kurisu has crafted a keepsake, a spirited chronicle of plantation days and a must-read for newcomers. -- Midweek, July 17, 1996
Kurisu was blessed with a great memory, one that clung to details and could fashion them into word pictures. -- The Honolulu Advertiser, November 23, 1995
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The heartwarming autobiography of Yasushi "Scotch" Kurisu tells the story of the historic sugar cane communities along the Hilo Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii--from the boom years of the early 20th Century through the industry's postwar decline and virtual disappearance in the 1980s. More than 70 archival photographs illustrate these poignant, often humorous, anecdotes and warm vignettes of laborers from around the world--immigrants who worked the canefields and sugar mills and came of age in the plantation camps of the Hilo Coast. Sugar Town is a story told straight from the heart, a story that helps the preserve the spirit of a bygone era.
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Kurisu has crafted a keepsake, a spirited chronicle of plantation days and a must-read for newcomers. -- Midweek, July 17, 1996
Kurisu was blessed with a great memory, one that clung to details and could fashion them into word pictures. -- The Honolulu Advertiser, November 23, 1995
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The heartwarming autobiography of Yasushi "Scotch" Kurisu tells the story of the historic sugar cane communities along the Hilo Coast of the Big Island of Hawaii--from the boom years of the early 20th Century through the industry's postwar decline and virtual disappearance in the 1980s. More than 70 archival photographs illustrate these poignant, often humorous, anecdotes and warm vignettes of laborers from around the world--immigrants who worked the canefields and sugar mills and came of age in the plantation camps of the Hilo Coast. Sugar Town is a story told straight from the heart, a story that helps the preserve the spirit of a bygone era.
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Running north by northwest where the mountain meets the sea, the Hilo Coast lies along the Big Island's eastern shore-with a snow-capped volcano to leeward and nothing to windward but 2,000 miles of deep blue ocean. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
seed cane, plantation camps, independent growers, raw sugar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hilo Coast, Big Island, Honomu Hongwanji, Hakalau School, Hakalau Plantation, Wailea Milling, Chin Chuck, Hakalau Sugar, Hilo High, Japanese School, Wailea Mill Camp, Mauna Kea Agribusiness, Wailea Pirates, Belt Highway, Satoru Kurisu, Wailea Kokaido, Wailua River, Kolekole Park, Eagle Scout, Hakalau Bay, Hakalau Up Camp, Kalanianaole School, Mamalahoa Highway, Puerto Rican, Tatsuji Kawachi New!
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Running north by northwest where the mountain meets the sea, the Hilo Coast lies along the Big Island's eastern shore-with a snow-capped volcano to leeward and nothing to windward but 2,000 miles of deep blue ocean. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
seed cane, plantation camps, independent growers, raw sugar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Hilo Coast, Big Island, Honomu Hongwanji, Hakalau School, Hakalau Plantation, Wailea Milling, Chin Chuck, Hakalau Sugar, Hilo High, Japanese School, Wailea Mill Camp, Mauna Kea Agribusiness, Wailea Pirates, Belt Highway, Satoru Kurisu, Wailea Kokaido, Wailua River, Kolekole Park, Eagle Scout, Hakalau Bay, Hakalau Up Camp, Kalanianaole School, Mamalahoa Highway, Puerto Rican, Tatsuji Kawachi New!
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- The Big Island by Paul L. Hall on page 26, and page 86
- Humpty Dumpty (Nursery Rhyme) by Kin Eagle on page 28
- Us, Hawai'i-Born Japanese: Storied Identities of Japanese American Elderly from a Sugar Plantation Community (Studies in Asian Americans: Reconceptualizing Culture, History, Politics) by Gaku Kinoshita on page 38, and Back Matter
- Moon Handbooks Big Island of Hawaii: Including Hawaii Volcanoes National Park by Robert Nilsen in Back Matter
- Moon Handbooks Kaua'i by Robert Nilsen in Back Matter
- Moon Handbooks: Oahu 4 Ed: Honolulu, Waikiki, and Beyond by Robert Nilsen in Back Matter
- Moon Handbooks: Maui 6 Ed: Including Molokai and Lanai by Robert Nilsen in Back Matter
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