Bernard Murphy, James Murphy

Broschiertes Buch

Heart Mountain Chronicles

The History of a Japanese Relocation Center

Herausgeber: Tafoya, Renee

Beschreibung

"This work records the history of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center beginning on December 7, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to April 22, 1953, when the Heart Mountain Post Office closed because nobody lived there anymore. Heart Mountain Relocation Center was of one of the ten prison camps built by the Government in the summer of 1942 to incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast after Pearl Harbor. At its peak, the population at Heart Mountain was 10,767. This is the story of the building of a temporary city, its people, and all the accompanying community services that had to be created from scratch in a short time with few resources. Included are short personal anecdotes of some of the people who were interned there"--

Autor

The authors lived at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center with their parents from April 1948 until November 1950, occupying barracks that once housed Japanese residents. Their father, B.D. Murphy was a civil engineer with the Bureau of Reclamation who used the deserted Center as the headquarters of the Shoshone Reclamation Project. "Jim and I decided to research that unusual place where spent some of our growing-up years. Heart Mountain wasn't a very pretty place; the barracks remaining when we lived there looked pretty flimsy. How did those people from California ever survive living there in that harsh weather? We decided to find out. Since we had lived there and had a general idea of how it was built, we focused our interest on the infrastructure; whose idea was it to build such a place? Why was it built where it was? Who designed it? Who constructed it? Who were these people that were imprisoned? What did they do all day while locked up? Where did its prisoners come from and where did they go? Hopefully, in answering my own questions I will have been able to answer others' questions about this dreadful place" - Ben Murphy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wordsworth LLC
• Seitenzahl: 678
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 43mm
• Gewicht: 1157g
• ISBN-13: 9781733489720
• ISBN-10: 173348972X
• Artikelnr.: 70680962