Bainbridge Island Japanese American Memorial


Reports from the field by Joel McCarty

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Memorial Workshop Description

Part 1 Report

Part 2 Report

Part 3 Report

Part 4 Report

Part 5 Report

Group Shot

Part 6 Report

Congressional Hearing & Fumiko Hayashida Testimony

Part 8 Report

Part 9 Report

Part 10 Report

Part 11 Report

Part 12 Report

Part 13 Report

Letter from Lilly Kodama

News article from the Kitsap Sun

Article from the BainbridgeReview.com

Link to Photos for Sale By Brad Camp

TFG Home Page

Workshop Report: Part 13


Here is a group photo the next day, getting ready to welcome the Japanese-American community to view our work.

Fumiko Hayashida is interviewed; she is pictured as the mother carrying her daughter in this 1942 image (below) from the Smithsonian's archives.




Our gang, entranced by Makoto Imai (CA). He is credited by Mike Laine and James Wiester as the person responsible for stimulating interest in Japanese carpentry in the United States, and for giving birth to their own lifelong passions.

Mike Laine (rowing) David Blackwell (L) and James Wiester commuting between the job site and our little place on the beach.