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Does anyone here know anyone who has pictures and maps of Kapoho village before the lava took it? I am working on a local history project and pictures would be a huge help. I would only need them long enough to scan them and would treat them with the utmost care and respect.
Email through Punaweb usually gets to me eventually, just post if you send me one so I know to look for it.
Mahalos,
Carol
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Carol -
Roberta with Sierra Club has some from back in 1960 - I'll email you her info.
-Cat
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Have you seen the video that was posted here on Punaweb of the Kapoho lava flows? You could probably get screen captures from it.
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Mahalos, Cat. I have been able to find a fair amount from during the destruction, but not much from what the village looked like before the eruption started.
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Here's a link to a very good pic of a still intact Kapoho village.
http://www.shorpy.com/node/1023?size=_original
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Carey, wow, what great historical information. I sure enjoyed it.
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Thanks everyone, I think I already have just about everything already available on the internet, which is almost all pictures of the eruption and aftermath.
What I still really need is access to pre-1960 pictures showing Kapoho village well before the eruption, not during or after. The kinds of pictures that are in people's family albums and scrapbooks. I need things like class pictures from the Kapoho school, street scenes, family party and wedding pictures, pictures of fields, houses and buildings, recreation places like the lagoon and warm springs that were covered over, in other words the visual record of what has been lost.
Carol
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If you can find a copy of the movie "Bird of Paradise" the version starring Debra Paget was filmed at Higashi pond.
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This is kinda a long way around it but if you go to Plan Dept and look at the old plat maps for that area, you will find the original land owners names, and may be able to trace back a family member who has the old pics.
-Cat
