Laurel Fujisawa
@intrepidmouseLaurel Fujisawa es una japonesa estadounidense de tercera generación que vive en Chicago y es miembro de la junta directiva de la Sociedad Histórica Japonesa Estadounidense de Chicago. Tiene una pasión de toda la vida por los textiles que se refleja en su extensa colección de kimonos antiguos y antiguos y telas japonesas, concentrándose en la era Taisho.
Actualizado en julio de 2009
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10 de agosto de 2007 • Laurel Fujisawa
Growing up as a Sansei in Chicago, I didn’t hear much about the internment camps and the postwar resettlement from the Issei and Nisei in my family. It seemed they never wanted to talk about it. They were more interested in getting on with their lives, never looking back. Once in awhile, Dad would reminisce about growing up in Fresno, California, about Italian bakeries, Redwood forests, and the taste of fruit fresh off the trees, which of course, are much …