Jock Sutherlandâs childhood home, on Oahuâs North Shore, was a picturesque ruin when he brought me there. It was built after the attack on Pearl Harbor: a wooden barracks at the waterâs edge, part of the militaryâs frantic preparations for a second attack. The building had a soft V shape, as if embracing the ocean, with a line of louvred windows opening onto a basic deck. Waves pounded the rocky point below. Sutherlandâs mother, Audrey, bought the house in 1961, for fifteen thousand dollars, and lived there for nearly sixty years.
I thought the place looked salvageable, but Sutherland said no. âDry rot. Rust. The walls are racked. Itâs a teardown.â
He sounded so unsentimental.
âAnyway, look at the neighborhood.â
He gave me an eyebrow signal that I had to interpret. We couldnât actually see the neighbors. We were in the yard, surrounded by coconut palms, lush vegetation, an ancient unpainted stake fence. I decided I knew what he meant: mansions were slowly filling every lot along this part of the coast. In fact, Jock and his siblings had already sold this place to wealthy mainlanders. But the new owners seemed to be in no hurry to build, so Jock was still taking care of the yard, and using it to park his van while he surfed nearby.
âLooks fun out there,â he said, peering at waves breaking on a reef off the point. It did look fun. We paddled out through a gantlet of blue-gray lava rocks. I tried to mimic Sutherlandâs every moveâhe had been navigating this tiny, swirling channel since the nineteen-fiftiesâbut still managed to slice my foot. Out in the channel, he took my foot in his hands, studying the cut from various angles. âThatâs not from a rock. You kicked an âopihiââa limpet. âWe can clean it later. Iâve got some good stuff.â
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