The family was removed from the farm during the Second World War and upon returning to the PNW they did not return to farming but lived in Seattle Washington and the children went on to school (University) and good jobs and lives.
The last remaining of the family was interviewed several years ago and said he didn't care to return to farming because to him it was "just a lot of damn hard work".
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it is a beautiful barn. a sad piece of history for the family, though, even though it sent the kids' lives in a totally different direction.
This is a beautiful old barn. It's too bad the family had to leave during the war, but it sounds as if the children at least didn't regret that too much.
What a large family. It sounds like a lot of the children did not like working on a farm and yes, farm work is hard work.
First - to be very clear - the family did not leave voluntarily during the war - they were arrested and send to prison camps for the duration - businesses, houses, farms and and lands were stolen, confiscated, by the government and never returned to the families - even though no crime had ever been committed by them.
Fabulous photos and info - but it is a sad sad mark on our country's history that farms and businesses were stolen from Japanese people during the war and never returned to them.
We have close friends that were interned in the prison camps in Arizona during the war - and though treated fairly humanely (they had clothes, food and some sort of bed) they were humiliated and degraded and then the young men were expected to serve in the armed forces and fight for a country that thought of them as so useless and dangerous that they had to be housed like animals in prison camps in the hot desert
Sad, sad day for our country and many upstanding citizens who were discriminated against.
That's a lovely barn.... and a sad blemish on American history.
JoAnn I too know what happened to the Japanese families and I know this family also. I really wanted to focus on the Heritage barn and the fact that something so despicable could happen and they chose to rise above it..
MB
Gorgeous barn--and what a fabulous history. Farming is hard work --and those who do it must LOVE it, or else they wouldn't do it anymore... Thank God for our farmers!!!!
Hugs,
Betsy
The roofline of part of our house has "hips" rather similar to these barns - I often wonder why.
Cheers - Stewart M - Scottsdale, AZ (and Melbourne!)
A beautiful old barn with a mixed, sad history.
(Re your comment today: We only seem to go to Seattle when we have to - as in a dr.'s appointment. Usually we take care of business and get out as fast as we can. Yep, too many people!)
Beautiful barn. I guess the State of Washington has the same sad history as Canada during the Second World War of removing people of Japanese descent to internment camps.
All that time I lived on your side of the mountains and never realized how close this barn was to me. Thanks for sharing it, MB.
Love this red barn! And really love the history of it.
A beautiful barn but a sad part of history. I do love the family photo from the 1930's.
I love Washington's Heritage Barn program. I'll bet a lot of those old barns would have been torn down without it. This one is a beautiful barn, but sad that Mr. Nakashima worked so hard to build his farm and then had it taken away. It's a terrible part of our history, but I do think we can't judge what was done then by today's standards. The US was shocked by Pearl Harbor and things like this were done out of fear. I'm glad to see the Nakashima family did well after the war.
It's a beautiful barn and I'm glad it's a "heritage" site. What happened to this family was tragic and one would hope something like that would never happen again. Unfortunately, discrimination continues in many forms against many people today, almost always justified on "racial" or "religious" grounds.
Is this what you meant by "stirring up a hornet's nest"?
Our son and his wife are visiting so I've on a hiatus or something like that! :)
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