Escape from Manzanar
My Grandmother, Bachan, answered the knocking, only to find it wasn’t knuckles upon door she heard, but a 11 x 17 placard being nailed into the clapboard siding of their Delano home.INSTRUCTIONS To ALL MEMBERS OF JAPANESE ANCESTORY it began, the print scrolling smaller as it continued down, the words shrinking as their intentions grew more … Continue reading Escape from Manzanar
In Search of Internal Combustion at the HoeDown
We get to the Port damn early, pulling into the backstage parking lot before the morning mist has yet to lift from the harbor.A huge tanker chugs past, like a block long condominium set adrift by a jolting shrug of the San Andreas fault.I pause a moment, guitar case in hand, as we unload.I squint … Continue reading In Search of Internal Combustion at the HoeDown
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