‘Uprooted’ exhibit opens at historical museum
E U G E N E —
Opening Feb. 10 at
the Lane County
Historical Museum,
the
exhibit
“Uprooted: Japanese
American
Farm
Labor Camps During
World War II” visual-
ly documents the first
of the Japanese-
American farm labor
camps with photos
taken in July 1942 in
Oregon and Idaho.
This exhibit tells
the rarely told story of
the 33,000 Japanese
Americans from the
high security WWII assembly centers and
concentration camps who volunteered to
harvest sugar beets for the war effort.
Removed from their homes, farms,
businesses and communities because of
war hysteria, prejudice and failed political
leadership, photographer Russell Lee cap-
tured the hardships, dignify and sprit of
these individuals — more than half of
Gen. John L. DeWitt, Western Defense
Command, issued more than 100 military
orders applying only to civilians of
Japanese ancestry living in the west coast
states.
Congress authorized a prison term and
fine for any civilian convicted of violating
those orders.
Uprooted will be on exhibit at the Lane
County Historical Museum from Feb. 10
to May 25, Tuesday to Saturday from 10
a.m. to 4 p.m.
Admission is $5 adult, $3 senior, $1
youth, and children 14 and under are free.
them US citizens.
This timely exhibition commemorates
the 75th anniversary of the Day of
Remembrance.
On Feb. 19, 1942, Pres. Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066,
authorizing military commanders to des-
ignate military areas from which any per-
son could be excluded.
All seats $25 Reserved
The exhibit is funded by the Eugene-
Springfield Asian Council and is a part-
nership event with the Oregon Asian
Celebration, Feb. 18 to 19, 2017 at the
Lane Events Center.
Asian Celebration visitors get free
admission to the Lane County Historical
Museum with their stamped admission to
the festival.
There will be an opening reception
Feb. 10, 6PM at the Lane County
Historical Museum, 740 W 13th, Eugene,
Ore.
Admission for the reception is free.
Backstreet features 4
authors, artists in February
Backstreet Gallery features four out-
standing authors next month. There will
be a reception in their honor on
Saturday, Feb. 11, from 3 to 5 p.m. at
the gallery on Bay Street in Historic
Old Town Florence.
“Dogs, Crows and the Corn Chip
Dance,” by Kathryn Damon-Dawson,
Darby McCann and Riley McCann, is
a children’s book which teaches back-
wards-counting through rhyme.
The text is whimsical, engaging and
fast-paced. Watercolor illustrations are
by Damon-Dawson, who incorporated
digital images and drawings of dogs,
crows and cars gathered by grand-
daughters Riley and Darby.
The book was conceived one after-
noon while they traveled by car from
Beaverton to Florence. Damon-Dawson
wanted her granddaughters to under-
stand how, with diligence and effort, an
idea can be taken to completion.
Judy Fleagle worked as editor and
staff writer for Oregon Coast and
Northwest Travel magazines for 21
years. Prior to that, she taught first and
second grades in California for 22
years. In 2009, she retired to write her
first book.
In 2011, she co-founded the Florence
Festival of Books.
Fleagle’s books include “Crossings:
McCullough’s Coastal Bridges,” “The
Crossings Guide to Oregon’s Coastal
Spans,” “Around Florence” and “Devil
Cat and Other Colorful Animals I Have
Known.”
A fifth book is in the works that will
be another guide to the Oregon Coast
and available late in 2017.
Pattie Brooks Anderson is first a
painter and printmaker, but most
recently she has become an author of
books for children, she says, “from
eight to eighty.”
She has always loved illustrations in
children’s stories and her work is evi-
dence of that inclination. Though she
has always loved writing, she has found
her paintings are the inspiration for the
stories she writes.
She said she hopes to use her chil-
dren’s books as a message to children
of all ages to respect the earth and all its
creatures and the importance of our role
as human beings in preserving our
environment.
Karen Nichols, an artist, is also
author of five books. All her novels are
set in Florence. Her books: “Triumph
Over Fear: An inspirational novel of
wilderness survival;” “Second Chance
Heart: How often does one witness a
miracle?;” “The Unexpected Gift: A
novel of Inspiration” — a Marine
returns from Afghanistan to reclaim
purpose and trust through love and
redemption; “Thornton House” — mys-
terious love transcends time and opens
death’s door.
The latest, “The Moral of the Story,”
is a collection of short stories from the
poignant to the hilarious.
Join the authors on Saturday, Feb. 11,
for a book signing at Backstreet
Galleries and they will tell you about
their many adventures.
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