Reading and Seeing

I confess to having an advantage. I live in Washington, DC where there are hundreds of free things to every day. Most of the museums are free, events take place on the National Mall, and different neighborhoods offer distinct flavors.

Today included a trip to the Renwick Gallery where they have an exhibition on art made by Japanese-Americans while in internment camps. The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946 is open through January 30, 2011. Click here for more information. It's a small exhibition, but very well done.


If you'd like to explore this time period and subject a little more, I recommend Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. It's fiction. Very well written and a fairly fast read. It's about an unlikely friendship/romance between a Chinese boy and Japanese girl during WWII. It takes place in the '80 with a series of flashbacks. Click here to go to Amazon, but you can find it at your local bookstore or library.


So if you pick up a copy of this at your library and go to see the exhibition - you have a few days of totally free entertainment.