First plantation, last homes: Tenants of a former Kauai sugar camp face eviction

Countless memories encircle John Kruse’s rustic plantation home at Koloa Camp, one of the last remnants of Hawaii’s first sugar fields. A towering Norfolk pine marks the spot in the lush front yard where he buried his son’s piko, or umbilical cord. Family photos of son Kepa and Kruse’s wife, Keani, who died of breast cancer in 1994, adorn the shelves and walls of the rented house tucked at the end of a narrow dirt strip called Camp Road.

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