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Newsletters | Plantation Camp Registry Changing Exhibit AreasThe museum has two exhibit areas within the museum that change on a semi-annual basis. As with most museums, the Sugar Museum has a great amount of its collection in storage. Months in advance, new exhibits are planned. The changeable exhibit areas may contain artifacts and photographs from the museum’s collection, artifacts on loan, travel exhibits from another museum, or a combination of these. Check the newsletters below for upcoming exhibits, or contact the museum to see what’s new.  Mary Vares uses a wooden paddle called a "pa do forno," or baker's shovel, to remove bread loaves from the oven in this 1940's photo. Often, banana or ti leaves would be placed on the pa before putting the dough on it and gently sliding it into the oven. The leaves lent a pleasant aroma to the baking bread. Portuguese Oven This oven was built by Maui Agricultural Company (MACo) in the 1920’s. It was in the backyard of house no. 92 in Skill Village plantation camp in Paia town. The oven was moved to Sugar Museum grounds in 1984. Portuguese ovens were not built to be moved. It took 3 days of arduous work to get a steel plate under it, and it required a 15 ton forklift to load it onto a lowboy for its journey to the museum. The oven had some cracks in it prior to the move so, to minimize further cracking and crumbling, it was wrapped with sheet metal and banded to hold it together. It was restored on the museum grounds in 2008. The Alexander & Baldwin Sugar Museum gratefully acknowledges the donated services of Sniffen’s Express, which moved the oven, and Rico Labang, who restored it, assisted by Pauahi Lozano and Keha Clark. 2011 Year In Review Summer 2011 Vol. 8, Issue 1 Winter 2010 Vol. 7, Issue 3 Summer 2010 Vol. 7, Issue 2 Spring 2010 Vol. 7, Issue 1 Summer 2009 Vol. 6, Issue 1 Winter 2008 Vol. 5, Issue 3 The Plantation Camp RegistryThe Sugar Museum’s Plantation Camp Registry is a listing that contains the names of people who lived and worked in the sugar plantation camps on Maui. A number of years ago, the Sugar Museum put maps of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Co.(HC&S) and Maui Agricultural Co. (MACo) plantation camps into its gallery along with a registry form for former camp residents or their families to fill out. This was the start of the Plantation Camp Registry. People whose family lived in a camp, can fill out the form with information about which camp it was, the number of the house they lived in and for how long, the names of family members, nearby neighbors and other information. The Registry includes plantation camps in Puunene, Sprecklesville, Paia, Hamakua Poko and Kihei. Wailuku and Lahaina were added to the form in 2008. Although the museum does not have the camp maps of the Wailuku and Lahaina plantations, hopefully they will be obtained in the future. The total number of people who lived in the camps over the years is unknown. However, The Hawaii Sugar Manual (A.B. Gilmore 1939) provides the following figures: The HC&S plantation census of 1939 reported a grand total population of 7,973, and the MACo Plantation (Paia) reported a population of about 6,500. HC&S reported occupancy of 1,545 houses and MACo had approximately 1,500 houses. The completed forms are added into an accessible Plantation Camp Registry database, available to anyone who is interested in this information. It will serve as an important historical record and as a resource for historians, scholars, writers, researchers, students, and all who want a look into the past. Another important function of the Registry will be to help camp “alumni” families to find each other again. The Plantation Camp Registry listing is still under construction and we hope to have it available on this website at a later date. Open
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