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Recommended Reading List - local authors and others
Davis, Leonard M. Penryn A Village Locked in Time. Friends of the Griffith Quarry, 1995
History of the Placer Buddhist Church. Placer Buddhist Church, 1973.
Kashiwagi, Hiroshi. Swimming in the American A Memoir and Selected Writings. Asian American • Curriculum Project, 2005 and Starting from Loomis and Other Stories. University Press of Colorado, 2013.
Peach Boys: Japanese Americans in Placer County, California, Masters Thesis, California State University, Northridge, 2012
Standing Guard: Telling Our Stories, Standing Guard Publication Group, Sierra College Press, 2002.
The Japantowns of Placer County. California Japanese American Community Leadership Council, 2007.
Uratsu, Rusty K. History of A Church: The First United Methodist Church of Loomis. Press Tribune Roseville, CA, 1975
Brown, Daniel James. Facing the Mountain - A True Story of Japanese American Heros in World War II. Viking, Penguin Random House, 2021.
Hirasuna, Delphine. The Art of Gaman - Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946. Ten Speed Press, 2005.
Sato, Kiyo. Dandelion Through the Crack. Willow Valley Press, 2007.
Tsukamoto Mary and Pinkerton Elizabeth. We The People - A Story of Internment in America, 1987.
Resistance at Tule Lake by Konrad Aderer - available on DVD or streaming
The Cats of Mirikitani available on DVD
The Manzanar Fishing Club - by Cory Shiozaki - available on DVD
Why the US photographed its own WWII concentration camps - Satsuki Ina story
Other Options Online
First United Church of Loomis Website/About Us -100 Years in the Spirit” Video
History - 80th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066 - Barbara Leak articles
Long-lost photos of Japanese Americans provide poignant glimpse into NorCal history
May 2022 Loomis Month of Remembrance - Interactive Oral History Panel
May 2022 Loomis Month of Remembrance - The Japan Towns of Placer County - lecture by David Unruhe
May 17, 2023 Loomis Still Standing Guard Film & Discussion Series
May 7, 2024 7 pm Loomis Still Standing Guard Remembering Paul Isamu Yokote
Oral Histories with Local Citizens:
California State University, Sacramento, Dept of Special Collections and Univ Archives. Oral History Interviews with:
Alice Yaeko Goto: part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3
Benji Takahasi, with wife Florence Takahshi and daughter Naomi and granddaughter Courtney Goto: part 1 of 2 part 2 of 2
California Revealed - Oral History Interview with Homer Yoshio Takahashi
Library of Congress Veterans History Project - Personal Narrative -Frank Kageta
Library of Congress Veterans History Project - Personal Narrative - Alfred T. Nitta
Library of Congress Veterans History Project - Personal Narrative - Mack F. Tsujiimoto
Library of Congress Veterans History Project - Personal Narrative - Shig Yokote
First United Church of Loomis Website/About Us -100 Years in the Spirit” Video
History - 80th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066 - Barbara Leak articles
Long-lost photos of Japanese Americans provide poignant glimpse into NorCal history
May 2022 Loomis Month of Remembrance - Interactive Oral History Panel
May 2022 Loomis Month of Remembrance - The Japan Towns of Placer County - lecture by David Unruhe
May 17, 2023 Loomis Still Standing Guard Film & Discussion Series
May 7, 2024 evening Loomis Still Standing Guard Remembering Paul Isamu Yokote
Oral Histories with Local Citizens:
California State University, Sacramento, Dept of Special Collections and Univ Archives. Oral History Interviews with:
Alice Yaeko Goto: part 1 of 3 Part 2 of 3 Part 3 of 3
Benji Takahasi, with wife Florence Takahshi and daughter Naomi and granddaughter Courtney Goto: part 1 of 2 part 2 of 2
California Revealed - Oral History Interview with Homer Yoshio Takahashi
Library of Congress Veterans History Project - Personal Narrative -Frank Kageta
Library of Congress Veterans History Project - Personal Narrative - Alfred T. Nitta
Library of Congress Veterans History Project - Personal Narrative - Mack F. Tsujiimoto
Library of Congress Veterans History Project - Personal Narrative - Shig Yokote
Local Places To Visit
Arboga Assembly Center CA State Historical Landmark, Olivehurst, CA
First United Methodist Church of Loomis, Issei and Nisei Japanese Gardens
Out of town Places to Learn More
Manzanar National Historic Site, 5001 Highway 395, Independence, CA 93526
Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial, outside BART Station, San Bruno, CA
Tulelake National Monument 44340 Hwy 139. Tulelake, CA 96134