Koloa: An Oral History of a Kauai Community
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Interviewee Sort descending | Collection | Description | Interviewer | Date of Interview | Location of Interview | Affiliation |
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Edene Naleimaile Vidinha | Koloa: An Oral History of a Kauai Community |
Edene Vidinha was the youngest of three children and only girl born to Maurice Smith and Emma Wohlers Smith in 1905. After Maurice Smith died, Edene was raised by her mother and stepfather, John Naleimaile, Koloa Plantation policeman, who later became a Kaua'i county policeman in Koloa. Edene and her family lived in a home adjoining the courthouse in Koloa, where her stepfather worked. She first attended Koloa School, then transferred to Kawaiahao Seminary in Honolulu. |
Iwalani Hodges | Omao, HI | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History | |
Eric McD. "Iki" Moir | Koloa: An Oral History of a Kauai Community |
''Iki" Moir is the only child of Hector Moir and Alexandria Knudson Moir. Hector Moir was the manager of Koloa Sugar Company from 1933 to 1948; he stepped down when Koloa Sugar Company merged with Grove Farm. Alexandria Knudson Moir is a descendent of the Sinclair, Gay and Robinson families who owned Ni'ihau and parts of Kaua'i. |
Warren Nishimoto | Poipu, HI | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History | |
Masako Hanzawa Sugawa | Koloa: An Oral History of a Kauai Community |
Masako Sugawa, eldest of three children, was born in 1911, in Halehaka, Kaua'i. Her father, Yoichiro Hanzawa, immigrant from Miyagi-ken, Japan, was a rice farmer in Halehaka; her mother, Kesa, also from Miyagi-ken, died at age thirty-three in 1919. Masako helped her father care for her sister and brother. |
Michi Kodama-Nishimoto | Koloa, HI | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History | |
Vivian Leilani Vidinha Souza | Koloa: An Oral History of a Kauai Community |
The youngest of eight children who survived childbirth, Vivian Leilani Vidinha Souza was born January 14, 1918 in Koloa. Her father, Antone Vidinha, Sr., was Portuguese born in Mana, Kauai and eventually became the sheriff of Koloa. Her mother, Alohakeau Hale Vidinha, was Hawaiian born on Niihau. Vivian's brother, Antone Vidinha, was a former mayor of Kauai. Vivian, a lifelong resident of Koloa and Poipu, completed the eighth grade at Koloa School. |
Iwalani Hodges | Poipu, HI | University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History |