In the morning we went to the sugar plantation in Puunene. We didn't know a ton about the family's involvement, other than there was an aunt who was a nurse and came from the Mainland to run the plantation hospital. She then married the foreman of the plantation. Her brother came over and was the facility engineer. We have sepia-tone film of the family on Maui in the 20s or 30s. There you go.
So we went to the plantation museum, and I sat down on a bench near a map and pulled out a binder they had for visitors to look at. There, a few pages in, was a map that showed the location of our family's house. So cool. This is the map but not the house:
We took photos of the maps, and set ourselves the task of locating the site of the family house.
But first we met up with a friend of mrguy's who had recorded with him at the studio. He has a place here where we live, but he and his partner picked up and moved to Kihei. Go figure. It was nice to meet someone who was starting over in Hawaii. He bought a beat up house that was filled with termites and is gradually rehabbing it.
After lunch and a tour of his house, we went to the Friends of the Library store. I can't recall why, but it was interesting and full of treasures and mold. I sneezed a lot.
We met up with our friend Ramona for dinner. She's awesome and on our last trip she came all the way over to Oahu to meet up with us, which was a ball. I can't believe that I didn't take any pictures of us, our meal, whatever. We went to a local place, and the music wasn't really tremendous until a guy in the crowd came up and played one of the most beautiful versions of Hawaiian Soul I've ever heard.
The sunsets on Maui are terrific.
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