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tsunamis_10.pdf (8.11 MB)

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1999

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Nishimoto, Warren

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A retired teacher tells of her mother's immigration from the Philippines, family's businesses (billiard parlor, meat market, and boardinghouse), childhood activities in her Mamo Street neighborhood, and education at Riverside School, an English-standard school. Her account of the 1946 tsunami, which damaged the billiard parlor, is told from a child's perspective.
teacher; Filipino; female
Interview conducted in English.

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Business, Lifestyles - Filipinos, Natural Disasters, South Hilo (district), Schools

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http://hdl.handle.net/10125/30334

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1 hr, 10 min
20 pages

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Hilo, Hawaii (island)

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DU629 .H28 T78 2000

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Tsunamis Remembered: Oral Histories of Survivors and Observers in Hawai‘i