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Browsing Local History Articles by "Mary Hallock Foote"
A Sea-Port on the Pacific, by
Mary Hallock Foote
The whitish-gray sandstone cliffs rise above the breakers to the level of the breezy plain above; they are like an ... [Read more]
A Sea-Port on the Pacific, by
Mary Hallock Foote
Five minutes' walk from the priests' garden will bring you into a little street which contradicts every impression there received. ... [Read more]
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Chapter 3:
Uneasy Settlement: The War Years
Japan's fateful decision to drop bombs on Pearl Harbor did more than destroy ships and planes - it also exploded the tenuous hold that Japanese immigrants and their descendents had on their adopted country, the United States.
For Issei and Nisei, ..." [More]
Excerpted from Nihon Bunka/Japanese Culture: One Hundred Years in the Pajaro Valley by Jane W. Borg and Kathy McKenzie Nichols
