Rohwer Heritage Site

[...] into the lives of Japanese Americans once interned there. The exhibits will be maintained by Desha County. A National Historic Landmark, the Rohwer site today includes only the Japanese American [...]

[...] Rohwer Reconstructed: Interpreting Place through Experience $300,378 Rohwer Relocation Center, Desha County, AR The University of Arkansas will create an online 3D visualization of Rohwer Relocation [...]

[...] to stabilize and restore Rohwer cemetery markers at the former Japanese Internment Camp in Desha County upon receipt of a 2011 National Park Service grant. She started working on the cemetery with [...]

[...] Left to right: Mrs. Tim Taira, Mr. Tim Taira, Mrs. Sharon Wong, Mr. Wong On April 15, 2014, Tiffany Keb and Alyson Gill interviewed Sharon [...]

[...] Rohwer Reconstructed: Interpreting Place through Experience $300,378 Rohwer Relocation Center, Desha County, AR The University of Arkansas will create an online 3D visualization of [...]

[...] and the unveiling of outdoor exhibits developed through Arkansas State University at the Rohwer Relocation Center followed. Both projects were initiated through grants from the Japanese American [...]

[...] Rohwer Reconstructed: Interpreting Place through Experience $300,378 Rohwer Relocation Center, Desha County, AR [...]

[...] the attacks in Boston, I took a pilgrimage. I traveled to Arkansas to dedicate the Japanese American Internment Museum in McGehee. The town lies between two places of great sadness: Jerome internment [...]

[...] MCGEHEE, ARK. — Actor George Takei spoke quietly and thoughtfully as the Japanese American internment museum and the exhibit “Against Their Will: The Japanese American Experience in World War [...]

[...] Kimball Erdman will also be recognized. Erdman worked with Lewis at the Rohwer Relocation Center Cemetery. Erdman’s landscape architecture class prepared a Historic American Landscape [...]

[...] Jerome internee born in the Jerome hospital, and Mr. Tim Taira, a former Jerome and Rohwer internee whose father was a physician in the Rohwer hospital. We will be posting those interview [...]