Friday, August 10th, 2012

THE HISTORY OF August 10th, I'm ___________________ .

AND I'm ___________. Today in 1988: After 40 years of sweeping a brutal chapter of U.S. history under the carpet, President Bush is pressured to sign a law compensating victims of U.S. internment camps, where more than 100,000 Japanese Americans on the West coast were held during World War Two.

In February 1942, President Franklin Roosevelt had authorized the internment, and Japanese Americans were imprisoned in remote desert areas. Hawaii’s 150,000 Japanese Americans were spared internment when the business community, media, local governments and general population rushed to their support.

But Japanese Americans on the mainland were isolated. White farmers viewed them as competitors and openly admitted they wanted their land. The Los Angeles Times questioned their loyalty and, echoed by local radio, branded them potential spies.

Friday, August 10th, 2012

It's This Weekend’s Action Calendar!

The Northside Farmer’s Market is held Sunday mornings, rain or shine, from 8:30 to 12:30 at the corner of North Sherman Avenue and Northport Drive, in the Northside TownCenter parking lot. Coming to this Sunday’s Northside Farmers Market will be the City of Madison’s first ever Ride the Drive Northside - a fun-filled day of bikers, walkers, rollerbladers, and the fourteen-seat “Capitol Pedaler” a unique bike platform for 14 bikers. More info at northsidefarmersmarket.org.

Tomorrow, Art in the Mill Park runs from 10am to 5 pm in Paoli. This year’s fair will feature the fine and folk art of over forty artists displaying their work in the shaded Mill Park on the banks of the Sugar River. Musical entertainment will be provided by “Off the Porch”. The fair features a silent auction benefiting the Autism Society of South Central Wisconsin.  Art in the Mill Park is co-sponsored by Lovely Days Gallery and Teaching Studio in the Lower Mill in Paoli and the Autism Society of South Central Wisconsin. This will be Saturday at 6890 Paoli Road in Paoli. More info at 608-554-7764 or lovelydaysinpaoli.com.

Sunday, the Center of Bolivian Residents of Madison invites you to celebrate Bolivia’s 187 years of independence and the International Day of Bolivian Folklore from 2 to 7 pm at Lake View Park, 6300 Mendota Avenue in Middleton. Bring a dish to pass for the potluck! More info at 228-3198.