As one of Greg Ellifritz’s Patreon supporters, I received an electronic version of his new book Choose Adventure: Safe Travel in Dangerous Places as a benefit of patronage. But Greg was good enough also to send me a hard copy when it became available recently. At first glance, I am not the natural audience forContinue reading “Choosing Adventure: Safe Travel in Dangerous Places book by Greg Ellifritz”
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Visiting Alley 6 Craft Distillery, Healdsburg, California
Toward the end of a visit to Napa Valley, my mind turned from wine to whiskey, so on our way home we passed by Silver Oak and Jordan in the Alexander Valley and stopped at Alley 6 Craft Distillery in the Sonoma County city of Healdsburg. The Story: A distillery amid hundreds of wineries isContinue reading “Visiting Alley 6 Craft Distillery, Healdsburg, California”
Pilgrimages to Japanese-American World War II Internment Camps and Isolation Centers
This page collects all of my previous posts about the interment of Japanese-Americans during World War II and provides a home for my (hopefully) growing list of pilgrimages to the sites of internment camps and isolation centers. Previous Posts Discovering Japanese-American World War II Internment Camps Historical Background to the Internment of Japanese-Americans during WWIIContinue reading “Pilgrimages to Japanese-American World War II Internment Camps and Isolation Centers”
Directions to Leupp Isolation Center (World War II Japanese-American Detention) Site
As noted in my previous post, there is no official historical marker for the Leupp Isolation Center for Japanese-American detainees during World War II. Nor is the location marked on Google Maps (though I submitted a request that Google add a marker). For anyone wanting to go see the site, here are the directions IContinue reading “Directions to Leupp Isolation Center (World War II Japanese-American Detention) Site”
Pilgrimage to Leupp Isolation Center, Arizona
On April 27, 1943, Harry Ueno and other inmates at the Moab Isolation Center at Dalton Wells in Utah were moved to an abandoned Indian boarding school on the Navaho Trival Land in Leupp, Arizona. Ueno and four others were “forced to make the 11-hour trip confined in a four by six foot box onContinue reading “Pilgrimage to Leupp Isolation Center, Arizona”
Pilgrimage to Dalton Wells Isolation Center, Moab, Utah
The resistance to the unjust authority felt by Japanese-American citizens who were forcible evacuated from their homes and imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II went beyond the organized efforts against the loyalty questionnaire I discussed in an earlier post. And the resistance was not without consequence. One of the best known detainees atContinue reading “Pilgrimage to Dalton Wells Isolation Center, Moab, Utah”
Pilgrimage to Manzanar Internment Camp
For my wife’s birthday last November, we traveled to California to visit family and tour some of the national parks in Southern California. After visiting Joshua Tree National Park, we headed north to Death Valley. Not exactly between Death Valley and Pinnacles National Parks, but not too far out of the way, is the siteContinue reading “Pilgrimage to Manzanar Internment Camp”
Discovering Japanese-American World War II Internment Camps
I don’t know when I first became aware of the forced removal and internment of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast of the United States during World War II. But I remember learning alot more about it for a paper I wrote back in 1989 when I was an undergrad at UC-Berkeley. The Bancroft Library atContinue reading “Discovering Japanese-American World War II Internment Camps”
Post-Paris Reflection: We are PROBABLY Safe, but Not CERTAINLY Safe
Following the picture below is some text that was originally posted on my Gun Culture 2.0 blog last Saturday. I thought to re-post it here today because I am leaving for Washington, DC in a couple of hours and have been thinking about the advisability of the trip in light of the Paris attacks. OnContinue reading “Post-Paris Reflection: We are PROBABLY Safe, but Not CERTAINLY Safe”
Goodbye Rome, Hello Home: Trains, Plains, and Automobiles
After a great trip to Assisi and Rome, Italy, I had to get home and back to family and business. I was up early and left my hotel for the short walk to the Termini station at 7:00am. I caught the 7:22am Leonardo Express train to the Fiumicino airport. I was there by 8:00am. BecauseContinue reading “Goodbye Rome, Hello Home: Trains, Plains, and Automobiles”
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