2 PRESIDIO OF MONTEREY, Calif. (July 20, 2021) – Children from the Porter Youth Center kept the questions rolling for Cameron Binkley, command historian for the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, as he spoke here July 15.
More than 30 children in grades first through third met Binkley at the Brig. Gen. Harry Dwight Chamberlin Library, and throughout his talk, they asked about local history, military history and artifacts such as a musket on the wall. Although the facility once served as the Fort Ord library, today it is a military history archive and visitors are not allowed to remove materials.
By the time Binkley let it slip that historians have a “notorious reputation” for being boring, one child begged to differ.
Critical Inking
Palo Alto native Bryan Ida connects the internment of Japanese Americans to Trump s Muslim Ban and other examples of American intolerance in new portrait exhibit
February 3, 2021 by Katie Lauer
GRANDFATHERED IN: Grandfather (60 x 37 ink on panel, 2018) is drawn from a photograph taken of the artist s grandfather John Ida by famed photographer Dorothea Lange. It s part of Bryan Ida s con.Text exhibit.
As John Ida waited for a bus in San Francisco in 1942, he stood amongst a sea of luggage, hands clasped together, with a paper-wrapped package in his arms. His eyebrows were raised ever so slightly, as if from surprise at being photographed, or perhaps curious observation or the onset of grief.