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Kahuku: Survival of a Plantation Town

Kahuku: Survival of a Plantation Town

1988•19m
Documentary

When the Kahuku sugar plantation and mill shut down in the 1970's, workers who lived in plantation housing had to decide how to hold the community together and create something new out of an industry that had come to an end. This is the story of their successful transition from plantation to self-governing community.

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Production

Hawaiian Electric Company

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Scott Shirai

Narrator

Tom Nakayama

Self

John Primacio, Jr.

Self

Seiko Shiroma

Self

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