Saturday, January 1, 2011

Happy New Year!

For New Years we took Camdent o the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. They had an exhibit featuring the internment camps set up to house Japanese-Americans during WWII. Since my grandma and her family were placed in one of the camps in Tule Lake, this was such an interesting and moving exhibit to see. My grandma, her parents and sisters along with all the other families placed in the camps endured so much and lost so much. An important part of our history of persecution just for being born a certain way.

A model of what a room housing a small family looked like


Artwork done by one of the interment camp survivors, dozens and dozens of family surnames from the campsite she was placed in.




A walk-through exhibit made to look like the housing at the camps

Camden playing with the drums


Fun!

A really blurry pic of the taiko performance

Camden actually sat still and listened while they played

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