A 70-year-old Lahaina woman recalls her life in Maui, Hawaii, before the influx of tourism and before the deadly wildfires. Her ancestral home was destroyed in the blaze.
6:09Courtesy of Jeffery LermaThe house where she lived, affectionately called “Grandma’s House,” has been in the Native Hawaiian family for generations. It was a gathering place, she told ABC News – sitting at just 900 square feet, it housed over a dozen people at times throughout the years.
Elders in the community, like Arcangel, say they worry about preserving their community, their history and their lands in the aftermath of the deadly wildfires.of Lahaina, which has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1962, used to be the capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii and holds lots of cultural importance to not just those who lived there, but to the entirety of the Hawaiian Islands.
She was calm – saying she doesn’t want them on the road as winds picked up and she was preparing in case of an evacuation. She smelled smoke. “The winds were so strong that we had to hold each other,” Arcangel said. “You know, we take one step forward. It took us back two steps.” “It was a beautiful place to live in, because the community was so close,” she said. “And it was a place where they welcome newcomers with open arms.”
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