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News Release: HAYAO “HY" SHISHINO. Family # 9361. Camp: Gila River, AZ. Address: 33-9-C. Fumio Shishino, my father, came to America from Kagoshima, Japan in 1910. He worked for many years in various jobs as a laborer and picking fruit. My father returned to Japan in 1919 to marry my mother, Toshi Kodama Shishino. He...
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Spring snow removal operations begin
News Release: JUN OKIMOTO. Family # 3690. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 31-1-4. We lived in Glendale, CA, before we were evacuated to Manzanar War Relocation Center. My father was a gardener and my mother ran a boarding house for men working at the fruit stands and as gardeners. I attended Hoover High School and participated...
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Peg Bobel: Advocate, Author, and Citizen Scientist
News Release: MAS SEGIMOTO. Family # 4524. Camp: Manzanar, CA. Address: 10-5-4. My father Katsutaro Segimoto came to the United States in 1906 and my mother Kiso Dakeno in 1920. Both came from the Wakayama Prefecture in Japan. The marriage was arranged by their parents in Japan and my mother came to this country as a...
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Park Loop trailhead in Fayetteville temporarily closes for gas well plugging
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Davis Bayou, MS. Amenities. 1 listed. Benches/Seating. To the right of the trail is a bench for visitors to take a break on. While relaxing make sure to take in the surrounding wilderness. Across from the bench there is a Yaupon holly bush. This is a common shrub we see in the park...
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Tabitha Brown
News Release: MARY M. TERAMOTO. Family # 29536. Camp: Jerome, AR (Address: 41-3-F) and Rohwer, AR (4-8-F). My mother Asano was born in Hawaii, which made her an American citizen. Her parents returned to Japan when she was nine. My father Sawataro Teraoka worked as a tailor in Japan until a depression forced him and...
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Giving Birth in a Hidatsa Village
News Release: ROSE MATSUI OCHI. Family # 12732. Camp: Rohwer, AR. Address: 12-9-F. Written using Rose Ochi’s oral history interview. My father Yoshiaki Matsui was born in Kumamoto, Japan in 1900. After Chinese indentured laborers built the railroads in the West, Japanese like his father and uncle were brought in to...
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Evelyn Fialla Hildegard
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Davis Bayou, MS. Amenities. 1 listed. Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits. Located to the right of the overlook stands a wayside that gives more information about the Civilian Conservation Corps and the work they did here. The sign also has images of the 1437th Company that...
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Alma Overholt
News Release: Quick Facts. Location: Davis Bayou, MS. In front of you on either side of the trail is some of the remnants of the CCC encampment that was here.The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), established by Congress on March 31, 1933, was a nationwide program that provided jobs for young, unemployed men during...
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Dry Tortugas National Park Seeks Public Input on Repairs to Counterscarp and Moat at Fort Jefferson
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...
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Ruth Woodman
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...
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Kathryn L. Marbaker Tubb
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...
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Dr. Margaret Long
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...
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Cape Cod National Seashore offers unique volunteer opportunities
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...
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Sarah Craighead
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...
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Greenbelt Park to reopen hiking trails and picnic areas for spring camping season
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.
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Volunteer Clean Up Day at the Abraham Lincoln Birthplace to Assist with Storm Clean Up
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...
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Alice Diminy
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...
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Carlsbad Caverns Begins Centennial Celebration
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...
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Knife River Villages
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...
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Dearman: New SIPI president has inspired ‘Indigenous students for more than 40 years’
A member of the Navajo Nation who pledged to serve and build Tribal communities is the new president of Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute in Albuquerque, N.M.
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