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Interviewee Sort descending Collection Description Interviewer Date of Interview Location of Interview Affiliation
Leroy Mollena Tsunamis in Maui County: Oral Histories

Born in Halawa Valley, a part-Hawaiian man remembers his family's subsistence lifestyle based on taro farming. He describes the 1946 tidal wave that damaged their home and the damages caused to the taro patches.

Jeanne Johnston Ho'olehua, HI University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History
Thomas Matayoshi Tsunamis in Maui County: Oral Histories

A Molokai resident talks about fish ponds and fishing on the east side. A teenager in 1957, he watched the incoming tidal wave flow beneath him from his perch on a mangrove tree.

Jeanne Johnston Ho'olehua, HI University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Center for Oral History