Manzanar: Summer 2010 Docent Program
The programs are free and open to the public. Manzanar National Historic Site Interpretive Center is located at 5001 Highway 395, six miles south of Independence, California. For walks, bring drinking water, sun protection, and appropriate footwear for level but uneven ground with dust and low brush. For more information on the programs, please call 760-878-2194 or visit Manzanar's website at www.nps.gov/manz.
July 24, 25: Arthur Ogami gives talks at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm
Join Arthur and hear his wartime memories of Manzanar, Montana, Tule Lake, North Dakota, and Japan. Arthur arrived at Manzanar a week and a half after his twentieth birthday. In camp, he worked as an orderly at the Manzanar Hospital, and helped build some of the Manzanar gardens.
He later transferred to the Segregation Center at Tule Lake with his family, and eventually expatriated to Japan in 1945. Arthur will present talks at 11:00 and 2:00 on both Saturday and Sunday and will also be available from 10:00 to 4:00 to answer visitors' questions.
August 7, 8: Hank Umemoto leads walks at 11:00 am; slide presentations at 1:30 pm and 3:30 pm
Hank was a defiant teenager at Manzanar who left camp on numerous occasions to hike in the Alabama Hills and Sierras. Hank will be back at Manzanar to lead walking tours through Blocks 9, 14, and 15, and share some of his colorful stories such as "Grandeur Once Denied," "From Paradise to Pewkin' Hell," and "From Manzanar to Mount Whitney."
Walks begin at 11:00 in the Interpretive Center. At 1:30 and 3:30, Hank will show slides and answer questions in the Interpretive Center.
August 21: Don Hata and Mary Higuchi give talks at 11:00 am and 2:00 pm
Mary Higuchi and Dr. Don Hata will speak on the theme of "Kids in the Nikkei Gulag-Diaspora," sharing their recollections of growing up behind barbed wire and surviving the postwar years. Mary Higuchi is an accomplished artist who has studied with Henry Fukuhara, and shown her work at past exhibitions at Manzanar National Historic Site.
Don Hata is Emeritus Professor of History at California State University Dominguez Hills. With his late wife Nadine Ishitani Hata, Hata co-authored the interpretive essay, "Japanese Americans and World War II: Mass Removal, Imprisonment, and Redress."
Don and Mary will give talks at 11:00 and 2:00, and will be on hand to autograph and sell copies of his essay and her greeting cards between 10:00 and 4:00.
September 4, 5: Cory Shiozaki and Richard Imamura give talk at 11:00 am; walking tour at 1:00 pm
During World War II, a small number of Japanese American internees at Manzanar escaped from camp to fish the famed streams of the Eastern Sierra. On Labor Day weekend, Cory Shiozaki and Richard Imamura will bring Manzanar's fishing stories to life, showing slides and footage from their upcoming film, "From Barbed Wire to Barbed Hooks," followed by an opportunity for questions and answers.
They will show examples of fishing tackle hand-made in camp. In the afternoon, they will meet visitors in the Interpretive Center, and lead a walk up nearby creeks and fishing holes. Talks are from 11:00 to 12:00. Walks are from 1:00 to roughly 3:00 depending on group size and creek water levels.
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