http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/2134 Comments for "Landscape Gardens and Gardeners at Manzanar Relocation Center" en http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/2134#comment-597 <p>Very interesting article! The <a href="http://www.saintelizabethchurch.org/default.cfm/PID=10.11.1.10.14">website of St. Elizabeth of Hungary Catholic Church</a>, in Altadena, has additional information and several good images of the shrine created by Ryozo Kado.</p> Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:04:40 -0800 jbower comment 597 at http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/2134 <p><a href="http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/sites/www.discovernikkei.org.forum/files/beckwith.jpg" title="View: beckwith.jpg"><img style="width: px; height:px;" src="http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/sites/www.discovernikkei.org.forum/files/beckwith.jpg" class="inline" alt="beckwith.jpg" title="beckwith.jpg" /></a></p> <h2>Landscape Gardens and Gardeners at Manzanar Relocation Center</h2> <p>By Ronald J. Beckwith</p> <p>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 help people pass the time as they waited in line to be fed. Over the past 14 years, the National Park Service has been clearing these gardens of debris and making them accessible to the public. </p> <p><a href="http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/2134">read more</a></p> http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum/en/node/2134#comment War &amp; Resistance Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:30:00 -0800 editor 2134 at http://www.discovernikkei.org/forum