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25 Ene 2008

Landscape Gardens and Gardeners at Manzanar Relocation Center

Ronald J. Beckwith

Manzanar Relocation Center, in Owen’s Valley, California, is unique among relocation centers for the number of community gardens that were designed and built by the internees during their incarceration. Most of the community gardens were built adjacent to residence block mess halls (hence their popular name: mess hall gardens) to …