Talk:Hamakua Coast

Sugar Town Foodscapes

 * JHU: Raising cane, scientifically

Original Broadcast Date: 1952 September 1

1 digital betacam videocassette (30 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.

1 VHS videocassette (30 min.) : sd., b&w ; 1/2 in.

Abstract
Mr. Miller, assistant vice president of the Hawaiian Suger Planters Association, describes Hawaii's largest industry, sugar production. He shows photos of the process, from planting, cultivation, harvesting, and finally processing at the C & H Refinery in Crockett, California.

A film details the work of the genetic laboratory in Hawaii that cross-breeds canes from countries around the world in order to create new hybrids that will be more resistant to disease and insect pests and produce a higher yield of sugar.

Subjects Sugarcane -- Hawaii

Sugarcane -- Breeding

Sugarcane industry -- Hawaii

Credits Host : Lynn Poole

Guest : Slator M. Miller

Narrator : Joel Chaseman

Producer : Lynn Poole

Asst. Producer : Robert Fenwick

Director : Paul Kane

Asst. Director : Ed Sarrow

Art Director : Barry Mansfield RJBurkhart 04:07, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

More Eco-History Trails & Tales
Softcover ISBN 0-9705787-1-7 The Big Island's Hamakua Coast was the classic plantation community
 * Lyon Arboretum
 * Watermark Publishing:

SUGAR TOWN
Life on the Plantation - in an Era When Cane Was King
 * Hawai&#180;i Plantation Days Remembered
 * by Yasushi Scotch Kurisu
 * 7" x 10", 112 pp.
 * Softcover, perfect bound
 * ISBN 0-9705787-1-7
 * $14.95

The Big Island's Hilo Coast was the classic plantation community with brawny mills, tidy camps and broad fields of billowing green. A boy could ride the flumes, watch the Sunday cockfights or spend his pennies at the general store. And a man could make an honest living in the green rows of cane or the brawny, bustling sugar mills. Scotch Kurisu was born into this world and never left, working his way from field hand to a position on the board of directors. Sugar Town is his own story -- a broad overview peppered with fascinating anecdotes and more than 70 archival photos. Its a story that helps preserve the spirit of a bygone era. RJBurkhart 14:05, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

Merge
Not sure what the above was - someone trying to sell their book?

Anyway, I proposed merging this together with the general Hamakua article, and have one sourced article instead of two unsourced ones. If it ever gorws too large the coast could certainly be split off again in the future. W Nowicki (talk) 00:14, 7 September 2010 (UTC)

Done. W Nowicki (talk) 23:59, 10 September 2010 (UTC)