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The Sugar Museum’s gift shop is situated inside the Sugar Museum in what was once the private kitchen of a plantation superintendent’s home. It offers made-on-Maui gifts and souvenirs, including the most popular items – real Hawaiian sugar cane stalks and sticks, and turbinado sugar, ready to take home. You’ll also find books on Hawaii’s history and culture, especially highlighting sugar’s history and plantation life. See Sugar and Books You’ll find Maui-made sugar products such as candies, jams, jellies, & syrups, along with locally written and produced cook books. Also popular are items with a Hawaii theme such as hand made original water colors of local flora, suitable for framing, Hawaiian Christmas ornaments, special pens made from Hawaii’s most prized and rare koa wood, and a selection of CDs of Hawaii’s best local music. There are children’s toys, games, books of Hawaiian stories and activities, and t-shirts exclusively designed for the Sugar Museum inspired by the sugar mill and Maui’s multi-ethnic plantation roots. A best-seller is the Sugar Museum’s own locally produced
DVD, Conveniently located about 10 minutes from the Kahului Airport in the Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum, the gift shop is open from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. during regular museum hours. Please see Directions and Hours. There is no charge to get in to the gift shop, however those adults interested in touring the Sugar Museum exhibits and galleries will have a $7.00 admission charge. Admission for children ages 6 to 12 years is $2.00. Children ages 5 years and under are admitted free. SUGARYour visit into Maui’s sugar plantation history isn’t complete until you pick up some Maui Brand 100% natural specialty sugars to take home. Evaporated Cane Juice is a light golden specialty sugar with a hint of molasses, made from sweet, sun drenched Maui sugar cane grown on the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company (HC&S) plantation, and produced at their sugar mill right across the street from the Sugar Museum. Maui Brand's Maui Gold Turbinado sugar, a darker, larger crystal, is enjoyed worldwide as the exclusive provider of Sugar in the Raw. You can get it at the Sugar Museum in 7 oz, 1 lb, and 2 lb quantities. BOOKSAmong the many books carried in the Sugar Museum’s gift shop are some historical books written by local Maui authors. SUGAR WATER
MAUI’S MITTEE AND THE GENERAL MOWEE
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Author
Carol Wilcox grew up in plantation communites on Maui and Hawaii.
In Sugar Water she brings to life a little known but vital
chapter in the history of sugar in Hawaii. This book is a trip through
time covering the network of treaties and land deals that preceded
cane’s coming, through the key players in the sugar consortiums
who backed the ditch-digging to the laborers who actually did the
work. Researched in 1984-85 mostly from primary sources found in
plantation and sugar factor records. 
The
personal memoirs of “Dr. Bill” Patterson, plantation
physician at Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company from 1941 –
1958. The autobiography chronicles the years leading up to and after
becoming a successful physician in Hawaii. In his early years at
Puunene he was one of just a few physicians on the island, and handled
an extraordinary number of public health epidemics, such as typhoid,
dysentery and leprosy. He vaccinated 4,700 Mauians for small pox,
accidentally inoculating himself three times! He was on Maui during
World War II and didn’t come home from the hospital for three
days after Pearl Harbor was bombed. Dr. Patterson later founded
the Maui Medical Group. Many people who grew up on Maui remember
Dr. “Bill” and will find it a treat to read his book
and take a journey through his remarkable life. And, there are a
limited number of personally autographed copies available here at
the Sugar Museum. 
One
of the favorite books of old Hawaii, Born in Paradise is
the first volume of the fictionalized autobiography of Maui native
Armine von Tempski. The following notes are taken from Mowee,
A History of Maui the Magic Isle: “Armine met author
Jack London when he visited Maui and was the guest of Louis von
Tempsky, manager of Haleakala Ranch. Armine, an aspiring writer,
showed London some of her manuscripts. He told her that it was “mostly
tripe” but that she had talent. He encouraged her to continue.
Armine von Tempsky because a successful writer, especially with
her best-selling autobiography, Born in Paradise. Millions
of readers were enchanted by the romantic life on a Maui ranch,
but not one reader in ten thousand had any clear idea where Maui
was or even that such a place existed in fact. . . Born in Paradise gives a fascinating picture of growing up on the big Haleakala Ranch on Maui in the 1930’s. Nearly all the characters in the book are deceased, except “Jackie”, who is Mrs. Inez Ashdown.
When
John “Johnny” Baldwin, grandson of Harriet Kittredge
and Frank F. Baldwin, approached Irma Gerner Burns, he knew he had
the right person. Irma had a long career as secretary to Mr. Baldwin,
then Manager of Hawaiian Commercial and Sugar Company (HC&S).
She herself was a 3rd generation islander, whose maternal grandparents
came to Hawaii from Norway in 1881 to work on the sugar plantations.
Irma was born and raised in Pa`ia, attending school on Maui and
O`ahu, followed by her career at HC&S. 
Cummins
Elliott Speakman, Jr. was born in Delaware in 1912 and came to Maui
in 1967 as President of Maunaolu College of Maui. Dr. Speakman decided,
after living 10 years on Maui and studying Pacific and Hawaiian
history, that there was a need for a written history of the Valley
Isle. He thought that a publication of the islands’ history
would be an appropriate project for 1978 – the Bicentennial
of Captain James Cook’s first sighting of Maui on November
26, 1778. In the author’s words, “This book is about
people. Naturally, like most histories, the story is told in terms
of leaders, but throughout I have tried to provide insights into
the lives of the common people of Maui who make up the essential
fabric of the island’s life.” Speakman acknowledges
renowned Hawaii artist Herbert Kawainui Kane “for his handsome
illustration done especially for the book’s dust jacket.”
The cover art is a detail from Kane’s painting entitled, “The
King of Maui Offers Aloha to Captain Cook, November 26, 1778.”
Ilima
Loomis is a 3rd generation Kama`aina from the island of O`ahu. Loomis
now resides on Maui with her family and is a staff writer for The
Maui News.