The Official Blog of the Los Angeles-based Manzanar Committee, sponsor of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage since 1969
May 15, 2013 Leave a comment
Photo: Geri Ferguson/Manzanar Committee
The majority of the photos are from the afternoon Pilgrimage program, with a small handful taken during the Manzanar At Dusk program.
May 2, 2013 1 Comment
Photo: Gann Matsuda/Manzanar Committee
By all accounts, this year’s Pilgrimage was a huge success. The numbers aren’t in yet, but initial estimates put the crowd anywhere from 1,400 to 1,700 people.
We’ll have more on the Pilgrimage and the Manzanar At Dusk program in the coming days and weeks. But for now, here is our first photo essay on the Pilgrimage (photos from the 2013 Manzanar At Dusk program will be published separately).
March 29, 2013 Leave a comment
The following is a press release from the National Park Service.
To download a printable flyer,
click on the image above.
(Adobe Reader software
required to view/print).
On Friday, April 26, the Friends of Eastern California Museum will host a public reception from 4:00 to 8:00 PM at the Eastern California Museum. Located at 155 Grant Street in Independence, the museum’s exhibits include Shiro and Mary Nomura’s Manzanar collection, a centennial retrospective on the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the Norman Clyde exhibit, and the Anna and O.K. Kelly Gallery of Native American Life. The Eastern California Museum is open daily from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM (see map below).
Friday and Saturday, the hours of operation for the Manzanar Visitor Center will be extended to 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM. The center offers extensive exhibits and an award-winning film, as well as special Junior Ranger activities for kids. The Manzanar History Association will host book signings by Manzanar to Mount Whitney: The Life and Times of a Lost Hiker author Hank Umemoto on Saturday and Sunday, as well as the annual Selected Artists from the Henry Fukuhara Annual Alabama Hills and Manzanar Workshop art show and sale, which runs through May 18 (click on image below to download a printable flyer).
March 25, 2013 7 Comments
PILGRIMAGE: Limited seats still available on bus to the Manzanar Pilgrimage from Los Angeles.
Long-time community activist and public servant Warren Furutani will receive the 2013 Sue Kunitomi Embrey Legacy Award at the 44th Annual
Manzanar Pilgrimage, on April 27, 2013.
(click above to view larger image)
Photo courtesy Warren Furutani
The award, named after the late chair of the Manzanar Committee who was also one of the founders of the annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, and was the driving force behind the creation of the Manzanar National Historic Site, will be presented at the 44th Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, scheduled for 12:00 PM PDT on Saturday, April 27, 2013, at the Manzanar National Historic Site, located on U.S. Highway 395 in California’s Owens Valley, between the towns of Lone Pine and Independence, approximately 230 miles north of Los Angeles (see map below).
Furutani, 65, was already a grass-roots community activist and civil rights advocate when he became one of about 150 people who made the first organized Pilgrimage to Manzanar on December 27, 1969. He talked about that experience during an event at the Japanese American National Museum on October 8, 2011.
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