Interview with Agnes K. Cope
"I love the Wai‘anae Coast, because I have always felt attached to it, because of the ranch at Mākaha and Mā‘ili, where the George Holt [family] branch had lands. When I was a child, growing up, I hated it because in the 1920's and early 1930's, to me, it represented poverty and it represented the lack of development, and it seemed to take forever to get there in the old cars. Sometimes we went by train and it didn't seem to take as long to get to Mākaha. The people there seemed to be struggling so hard-especially the homesteaders. At an earlier time, of course, when I was in my younger childhood, we used to go to Mākaha-up to the old ranch house, then to the beach, and those were the last of the golden days of the ranches. It was very different then, because everything was there. It was a very elaborate way of life.
But I love the mountains, and I love the sea...From the time you hit Lualualei and down to Mākua the whole Wai‘anae range—on that side is so dramatic. Those mountains are forever of great beauty and grandeur."
Reference Cited
Waianae Coast Culture and Arts Society. 1986. Ka Poe Kahiko O Waianae: Oral Histories of the Waianae Coast of Oahu. Topgallant Publishing Company, Limited. Honolulu, HI.
