Catch of glimpse of West Maui’s sugar cane past at Lahaina Plantation Days
The fourth annual Lahaina Plantation Days, which get under way tomorrow, offers a glimpse at West Maui’s sugar plantation past.
The three-day event will start tomorrow with its annual under-the-stars “Ohana Movie Night.” Gates open at 6 p.m. for the outdoor screening of Picture Bride (1995), a fictional story about real hardships faced by early 1900s Japanese women who emigrated to Hawaii for arranged marriages with Japanese men working the islands’ sugar plantations. Lahaina’s plantation era dates back to the mid-1800s. (The debut feature film by Hawaii-born filmmaker Kayo Hatta is on the list of “The 12 Greatest Made-in-Hawaii Movies Ever” in HAWAII Magazine’s August/September 2012 issue.)
Posted by on 10/17/2012 at 4:27PM HST (7 months ago)
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