By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: SABURO SASAKI. Family # 3831. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 36-7-1. My father came to Hawaii as a labor hand at the age of 17 in 1896. Later he moved to the mainland in 1904. My father returned to Japan to marry my mother and returned to the United States in 1923. They lived in Venice, CA and found work...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Davis Bayou, MS. In the 1930's, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) were tasked with creating recreation areas around the United States. The 1437th Company, comprised of ~200 men, moved to Ocean Springs from Quitman, Mississippi on May 23, 1938 to start work June 20, 1938. The...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: King’s Daughters Home, North Carolina. It is often easier to accommodate solar hot water systems than photovoltaic systems on historic properties because fewer panels are necessary. Solar hot water can often operate utilizing only a few panels, while photovoltaic systems often require multiple arrays...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: Old Hilton Hotel, New Mexico. In this project, solar panels were installed on the rooftop of a historic hotel building that is a large and prominent landmark in the community. Initially, the panels were set at an angle that created a new sawtooth feature that detracted from the roofline and distinctive...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: MITSURU J. NAKAMURA. Family # 2689. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 33-4-2. Jingo Nakamura, my father, came to America in 1918 at the age of 16. He worked on the railroad with his father and his brothers. After the exclusion act was passed my father returned to Japan to get a wife. My mother, Michie Inadomi...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: Vermont Residence. The gable end of this historic apartment building faces the street. Low profile solar collectors for a water heating system were flush mounted on the sloped roof on the south side of the gable. Though visible, these few panels have relatively little impact on the historic character...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: BO T. SAKAGUCHI. Family # 3751. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 11-7-3. Mother and father came to the United States in 1913. We were vegetable farmers. I had three older brothers and three older sisters who were medical and dental students and attending universities. The children were all born in California.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: BILL SUSUMU TAKETA. Family # 8584. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 30-5-1. My father came to California as a young man about 1913 from Hiroshima, Japan to join his father who was settled in the Florin area. My mother, also from Hiroshima, came to California about 1923. I was born in Florin on Sept. 27...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: MOMO NAGANO. Family # 1046. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 6-11-5. My father, Kiro Nagano, came to the United States in 1918 from Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, and returned there to marry my mother in 1920. They left Japan the day after the wedding. My father leased land in Los Angeles and, in his 20s, hired...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: WILBUR SATO. Family # 4655. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 9-1-2 and 29-8-1. My father came to the US in the early 1900’s when he was a teen. His father was in the nursery business in Pasadena and produced one of the first floral floats for the Rose Parade. His father was also an early pioneer photographer...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: ROBERT KATSUMASA OKAZAKI. Prisoner of War # 1444. POW Camp 33, Petawawa, Ontario, Canada. POW Camp 101, Angler, Ontario, Canada. My father Nobutaro Okazaki and my mother Natsu Koyama, both were born in Okayama Prefecture, Japan. At 19, Nobutaro immigrated to Victoria, British Columbia. He worked as a houseboy...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: General Description. Splash! What’s that? You look but only see water rings. Upon closer inspection there’s a cluster of black and white eggs at the shallow edge of a pond. You hear five faint chucking sounds and a low pitched grating noise. There it is! It’s a frog sitting on a partially submerged rock.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: Quick Facts. Significance: Alabama Homesteader. Place of Birth: North Carolina. Date of Birth: Between 1939 and 1842. Date of Death: unknown. Place of Burial: unknown. Willis Kyles was 38 when enumerated on the 1880 Census. He was living in Uchee, Russell County, Alabama, and was listed as a farmer born in...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
F23AS00302 - Migratory Bird Conservation in the Midwest grant opened on March 9.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
Cooperative Agreement for CESU-affiliated Partner with Great Basin Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit grant opened on March 9.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
The US Interior Department published a two page notice on March 8, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: LAWRENCE KIYOSHI SHINODA. Family # 20983. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 29-7-4. Written by Grace Shinoda Nakamura, Larry’s sister. My father, Kiyoshi Shinoda, came to the USA from Japan when he was 12, and my mother, Hide Watanabe, was one. Our father died when I was three and my sister Grace was six.
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: Who are you?. What is your favorite color?. What is the name of your best friend?. What is the farthest place from home you've ever visited?. What is one crazy thing you can do that no one else can?. All these things make up the you that is you - an amazing, fabulous, beautiful person. For this activity...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: El Sistema Nacional de Senderos invita a su familia a completar los Programas de Guardaparques Juveniles creados por los senderos nacionales. Al explorar estos senderos panorámicos e históricos nacionales a través del Programa Junior Ranger, los jóvenes aprenderán sobre algunos de los senderos que componen...
By Interior Newswire | Mar 9, 2023
News Release: San Juan Island National Historical Park, Washington.
