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SUMMARY:From Thorns to Blossoms: A Japanese American Family in War and Peace.
DESCRIPTION:Mitzi Loftus shared her story to a standing-room-only crowd in April 2024 at Bloomsbury Books in Ashland. Did you miss that event? \nAshland Together is glad to bring Mitzi and her son David Loftus back for an encore presentation of their book From Thorns to Blossoms A Japanese American Family in War and Peace. \nMonday\, August 19\, 2024\, 6:30 – 8pm \nCarpenter Hall 44 S Pioneer St Ashland \nAbout Mitzi Loftus \nFrom Oregon University State Press new books 2024: \n“Born on a fruit orchard in Hood River\, Oregon\, in 1932\, Mitzi Asai Loftus spent three years of her childhood in government incarceration camps in California and Wyoming. For more than seventy years\, she has given public talks about her family’s experience to audiences of all ages. Having lived much of her adult life in Eugene and Coos Bay\, she now resides in Ashland. \n  \nAbout David Loftus \nWriter\, editor\, actor\, and voice artist David Loftus is a native Oregonian. The author of several books\, David has acted on stage and in film\, recorded books for the blind\, and read literature aloud at bookstores\, coffee\, shops\, and pubs in a series he calls “Story Time for Grownups.” He lived 10 years in Boston but has been a Portland resident since 1991. \n  \n  \n \nPhoto credit: Bob Morse \n  \nThis PBS video is posted with permission from the producer and director Rory Banyard \n\n  \nIf you wish to support Ashland Together’s work\, please make your tax-deductible donation here. We want to thank Peace House for their fiscal sponsorship of Ashland Together.
URL:https://ashlandtogether.org/event/from-thorns-to-blossoms-a-japanese-american-family-in-war-and-peace/
LOCATION:Carpenter Hall\, 44 S Pioneer Street\, Ashland\, OR\, 97520
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