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DESCRIPTION:Event Overview\n\n<blockquote><em>"With a narrative style that 
 is consistently crisp\, clear\, and cogent\, this book brilliantly fills a
  significant void in the study of the Japanese American detention in World
  War II."</em>\n&nbsp\;&nbsp\;-- Arthur A. Hansen\, editor of the Japanese
  American World War II Evacuation Oral History Project</blockquote>\n<a hr
 ef="http://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/79qrf8rz9780252034916.htm
 l" target="_blank">Camp Harmony: Seattle's Japanese Americans and the Puya
 llup Assembly Center</a>&nbsp\;is the first full portrait of a single "ass
 embly center"--located at the Western Washington fairgrounds at Puyallup\,
  outside Seattle--that held Japanese Americans for four months prior to th
 eir transfer to an incarceration camp during World War II. Gathering archi
 val evidence and eyewitness accounts\, Fiset reconstructs the events leadi
 ng up to the detention as they unfolded on a local level: arrests of Issei
  leaders\, Nikkei response to the war dynamics\, debates within the white 
 community\, and the forced removal of the Nikkei community from Bainbridge
  Island. The book explores the daily lives of the more than seven thousand
  inmates at "Camp Harmony\," detailing how they worked\, played\, ate\, an
 d occasionally fought with each other and with their captors.\n\nAbout the
  speaker\n\nLouis Fiset\, Affiliate Associate Professor\, University of Wa
 shington\, is also the author of&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.washington.edu/
 uwpress/search/books/FISIMP.html" target="_blank">Imprisoned Apart: The Wo
 rld War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple</a>&nbsp\;and co-editor of&nb
 sp\;<a href="http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/FISNIK.html" t
 arget="_blank">Nikkei in the Pacific Northwest</a>. The introduction will 
 be given by Roger Daniels\, Ph.D.\, Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus
  of History at the University of Cincinnati.\n\nProgram\n\n6:00 p.m.\nAudi
 torium doors open\n\n6:30 p.m.\nIntroduction by Roger Daniels\n\n6:40 p.m.
 \nLecture by Louis Fiset\n\n7:20 p.m.\nQuestions by audience\n\n7:30 p.m.\
 nBook sales and signing\n\nAdmission\n\nThis event is free of charge. Admi
 ssion to the Wing Luke Asian Museum is free every third Thursday of the mo
 nth.\n\nDirections\n\nThe Wing Luke Asian Museum is located in Seattle's I
 nternational District at&nbsp\;<a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&am
 p\;source=s_q&amp\;hl=en&amp\;geocode=&amp\;q=719+South+King+Street\,+Seat
 tle\,+WA+98104&amp\;ie=UTF8&amp\;z=16&amp\;iwloc=A" target="_blank">719 So
 uth King Street</a>. Directions available at&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.win
 gluke.org/" target="_blank">www.wingluke.org</a>.\n\nEvent Co-sponsors\n\n
 Densho co-presents this event with the&nbsp\;<a href="http://www.wingluke.
 org/" target="_blank">Wing Luke Asian Museum</a>.\n\nQuestions?\n\nFor mor
 e information\, contact Densho at 206-320-0095 or&nbsp\;<a>info@densho.org
 </a>.
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SUMMARY:Camp Harmony: Seattle's Japanese Americans and the Puyallup Assembl
 y Center - Talk by Louis Fiset
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