Hawai'i Plantation Days Remembered

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. It's a story that helps preserve the spirit of a bygone era.