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Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners, merchants, and laborers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive. The author traces coffee's history in Hawaii--from its arrival in 1828 to Kona's position in today's highly competitive specialty coffee market. Through the author's use of oral history interviews, readers will experience day-to-day life on a coffee farm and the challenges, natural and man-made, that inspired innovations and adaptations to the agricultural, economic, and social life in the Kona Coffee Belt.
Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners, merchants, and laborers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive. The author traces coffee's history in Hawaii--from its arrival in 1828 to Kona's position in today's highly competitive specialty coffee market. Through the author's use of oral history interviews, readers will experience day-to-day life on a coffee farm and the challenges, natural and man-made, that inspired innovations and adaptations to the agricultural, economic, and social life in the Kona Coffee Belt.
The history of coffee differ from that discussed by historians of Western and Easterncultures ... vastly different in nearly everything historical. It is my finding thatcoffee was introduced from Southeast Asia long ago, perhaps from Java.This book is about coffee in these Hawaiian Islands and how it became one of themajor agricultural stimuli of Hawaii's economic growth beginning about 1818. Thisis a history about the legacies of early pioneer Chinese men who arrived in Hawaiiduring the era of Kamehameha I, stayed, married Hawaiian girls and ventured intonearly all agricultural activities, including coffee farming. It portrays a fascinatinghistoric story about these early Chinese men in Hawaii who, in spite of experiencingand enduring the white men's harsh, cruel and discriminatory treatment overcame allof these adversities and emerged successful in all their endeavors ... social, economicand, yes, even political.Therefore, this book is dedicated to these early pioneers, the Chinese Kona Coffeefarmers and their families who were responsible for the introduction of the famousKona Coffee, known all over the world today. They were the visionaries of the GeeHing Fraternal Society, forerunner of the Gee Hing Chinese Company CharitableTrust that is currently administered by the Bank of Hawaii - Trust Administration.In conclusion, since in-depth research must first be conducted and documented inwriting, the professional cast of the Hawaiian Chinese Multicultural Museum and Archivehas decided to publish a book to honor the legacies of these first coffee farmersof Kona. This historic publication reflects documentation based on research materialsuncovered mostly from the State of Hawaii Archives and from personal contacts withindividuals whose families were involved in the Kona Coffee industry.
This book studies the Japanese-American coffee farmers in Kona, Hawaii. Specifically, it sheds light on the role of first and second generation immigrants in the emergence of the Kona coffee agricultural economy, as well as factors that contributed to the creation of the Japanese community in Kona. The people there have survived much turmoil, including harsh treatment on the sugar plantations, economic instability, Pearl Harbor and racial stigma, and ethnic and religious identity crises. Despite these challenges, the pillars of the Japanese coffee community have remained stable.
In this collection of seventeen essays, anthropologists, art historians, museum curators, writers, designers, and historians provide case studies exploring collaboration with community-oriented partners in order to document, interpret, and present their histories and experiences and provide a new understanding of what museums can and should be in the United States.