Family Stories from the Plantation and Beyond Shantel Tessier From butterflies and bulldozers to

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Family Stories from the Plantation and Beyond Shantel Tessier From butterflies and bulldozers toThe Toyama Family stories begin on a sugar plantation on the Hamakua Coast of the Big Island. Pieper Toyama shares his stories in the local talk story style. Talk story is a Pidgin English expression that means chatting or making small talk by sharing stories. Piepers stories focus on lifes small moments that often go unremembered. He talks about the putt putt he rode to school, the big fish that fed Honokaa School, blazing cane fires, the annual