More than 135 of these poems have been recorded. The Angel Island Immigration Station was in operation from 1910 to 1940. During World War II, the site was used to hold prisoners of war and as a ...
Numerous carvings and writings in several languages have been found on the barracks walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station. The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings are poems ...
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At Immigration Station at Angel Island, some Asian-Americans are learning their family’s painful history for the first time“These poems were not written for us. They were written for themselves, to express what they were feeling,” says Angel Island State Park interpreter Casey Dexter-Lee. “Some are sad ...
This and dozens of other poems have been the focus of a $50 million, three-phase state parks restoration project underway at the Angel Island Immigration Station on the 470-acre island in San ...
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