Talk story with John Bega Sr. and John Bega Jr. and interview with John Bega Sr. 4/10/96
Talk story with John Bega Sr. and John Bega Jr. and Interview with John Bega Sr. recorded on April 10, 1996 for the 1946: The Great Hawaiʻi Sugar Strike. This tape begins with grandfather and grandson, Bega Sr. and Bega Jr., talking story while looking at pictures of plantation days from the 1940s to present. Next on the tape is an interview with Bega Sr. interviewed by Joy Chong-Stannard. Topics of the interview include how people survived during the 1946 sugar strike; the sense of family and togetherness in the old plantation days in Waipahu; the generation today; and how the community will be affected now that the sugar industry is gone.
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