Mary Adams Urashima
@MaryUrashimaMary Adams Urashima es autora, consultora de asuntos gubernamentales y escritora independiente que vive en Huntington Beach. Creó HistoricWintersburg.blogspot.com para generar más conciencia sobre la historia de los japoneses en el condado de Orange, incluidas historias de un área en el norte de Huntington Beach, una vez conocida como Wintersburg Village. Urashima preside un esfuerzo comunitario para preservar la centenaria granja Furuta y el complejo de la Misión Presbiteriana Japonesa Wintersburg, incluidos en la lista de “Los 11 lugares históricos más amenazados de Estados Unidos” en 2014 y designados “Tesoro Nacional” en 2015 por el National Trust for Historic. Preservación. Su libro, Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach , fue publicado por History Press en marzo de 2014.
Actualizado en abril de 2016
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Women in Wintersburg
8 de enero de 2013 • Mary Adams Urashima
Yukiko Furuta was not a picture bride and she did not remember meeting any picture brides in the area. Her marriage was arranged by family and friends. C.M. Furuta—who had been living in America since 1900—traveled to Japan to meet his prospective bride. “…One day this lady asked her to go to a public bath house with her,” explains the translator for Yukiko Furuta’s 1982 oral history interview with CSU Fullerton history professor Arthur Hansen. “When they finished taking the …
Goldfish on Wintersburg Avenue Part 2 - The Living Jewels of the Furuta Gold Fish Farm
19 de diciembre de 2012 • Mary Adams Urashima
Read Part 1 >> Did you ever wonder why goldfish and koi ponds have been a long tradition in landscapes around Orange County? Most likely, the trend owes its roots to Wintersburg. One of Wintersburg’s most unique business enterprises were the goldfish farms, all owned by Issei (Japanese immigrants). While there was a long history of goldfish farming in Asia, this was a fairly new enterprise for America. The glittering fish delighted the American public and ignited a trend …
Goldfish on Wintersburg Avenue - Part 1
12 de diciembre de 2012 • Mary Adams Urashima
One of the 1982 oral histories recalling Wintersburg’s past was conducted with Mr. Clarence Iwao Nishizu (by Professor Emeritus Arthur A. Hansen as part of the Honorable Stephen K. Tamura Orange County Japanese American Oral History Project, jointly sponsored by the Japanese American Council of the Bowers Museum Foundation—Historical and Cultural Foundation of Orange County, and the Japanese American Project of the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program). Clarence Nishizu’s accounts of Wintersburg are remarkably detailed and revealing of …
