![]() After we sat down, he explained President Franklin D. Caught in traffic, I was a little late and rushed to follow the last student through the mustard-yellow door.įirst, a guide led us through a recreation of a Camp Harmony horse stall, one family’s home during the World War II internment of American Japanese. i I’d never been to the 40-year-old museum, located in a refurbished 1930s auto repair shop in the Chinatown-International District. Affiliated with the Smithsonian, it is the only community-sourced museum in the United States focused on the history of Pan-Asian Pacific Americans. ![]() In the fall of 2005, when our oldest son was twelve, I took an afternoon off from the startup where I worked as an executive to chaperone his class, 50 raucous sixth graders from Seattle Academy, on an excursion to the Wing Luke Museum. These stories, told by community members, emphasize experiences and narratives that may have been overlooked or misrepresented in our city. The Seattle Histories storytelling project highlights the places, people, and events that have shaped the history of Seattle’s communities. Historic preservation in Seattle begins with community.
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