An unexpected journey to a "holy place"

Much of my online reading and writing is now confined to Twitter via Hootsuite.  Today I happened across an MSNBC tweet regarding Japanese internment camps.

It began a web surfing experience that I share here.

• I found a lovely blog post by travel writer Lori Erickson  written last year: 

"Wyoming’s Heart Mountain, a WWII Internment Camp, Has Lessons for Today"

• Next, I found a fabulous photo collection of 2000 black and white images taken by internees at Heart Mountain, George and Frank Hirahara.  
• The collection was eventually donated to Washington State University.

We visited the Heart Mountain site in August of 1997.  I took pictures as my sister, Donna, guided us through what remained of the camp.  

The Heart Mountain camp site was preserved and much improved over the years.

In 2011 it became the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.  You are invited to take the virtual tour.

Tweet writers shine again.

"Feeling grateful that high school Student Council prepared me to be governed by overambitious weirdos." (9/18/10) By PourMeCoffee

John Dickerson wrote this,"Sometimes the theories to explain Obama start to sound like refrigerator magnet poetry." (Sept. 18th).

Joseph Cirincione reports: "Just got off a call with 40+ NGOs, all working very hard to ensure a strong, bipartisan vote for New START this week." (Sept. 14th)

"And Obama offered up his familiar Slurpee riff: Dems digging economy out of a ditch while Republicans watch, just "sipping a Slurpee," was written by my favorite White House reporter, Mark Knoller on Sept. 18th.

ProPublica tweeted on Sept. 18th, "Watchdogs: Gov’t Spent $196 Keeping Secrets For Every $1 Spent Declassifying Documents, http://bit.ly/c5paFE"

Katrina [vanden Heuvel], Editor of Nation Magazine says, "Happiness= having purposeful life & meaningful work," July 8th.

John Dickerson, again (May 25th): "With this oil leak, the entire country is on the line and BP is tech help."

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Tweets to make you smile--

Today's little roundup consists of a few of my very favorite tweets, saved meticulously over the last few weeks.  Enjoy.

* From McClatchy DC -- "'Star Wars: Year by Year' illustrates effect on pop culture:http://bit.ly/9KZmdz

8:37 AM Aug 12th via twitterfeed -- This article reminds me of why I love this paper.

 

* From pourmecoffee - "Moments I'm officially getting sick of: 1) Teachable, 2) One Shining, 3) Defining".

11:35 AM Jul 24th via TwitterGadget -- This writer is so consistently funny.

 

*From freegaza.org -- "gaza moments http://t.co/Z1Bj6RG a beautiful look at Gaza in August 2010" 

1:28 AM Sep 6th via Tweet Button -- This is an 8 minute video that will make you appreciate the resilience of struggling Palestinians, particularly the featured children.

 

*From John Dickerson -- "Embarrassment Parenting that's a method, right?5:39 PM Jul 18th via TweetDeck -- Dickerson writes the most delightful tweets on parenting.

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