Just two months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 into law, making it possible for the government to create a military exclusion zone on the western coast of the United States “from which any or all persons may be excluded.” Starting in April of 1942, all Japanese Americans living […]
Beginning in the late nineteenth century, large numbers of Portuguese immigrants from the Azores migrated to Massachusetts. Confronting poverty, overcrowding, and, in some cases, compulsory military service at home, they crossed the Atlantic in search of economic opportunity. Many settled in industrial and maritime centers such as Fall River, New Bedford, and Taunton, while others […]
“She represents the firm values of Birth Hope and Death — which we must all eventually live by — despite all the talk — talk of string and wire — of our present — effect ridden society” -Katharine Hepburn on Frances Rich Early Life and Education Irene Frances Lither Deffenbaugh was born in 1910 in […]