Mary Adams Urashima
@MaryUrashimaMary Adams Urashima é autora, consultora de assuntos governamentais e escritora freelance que mora em Huntington Beach. Ela criou HistoricWintersburg.blogspot.com para gerar mais consciência sobre a história dos japoneses em Orange County, incluindo histórias de uma área no norte de Huntington Beach, antes conhecida como Wintersburg Village. Urashima está presidindo um esforço comunitário para preservar a centenária fazenda Furuta e o complexo da Missão Presbiteriana Japonesa de Wintersburg, nomeado para a lista dos “11 lugares históricos mais ameaçados da América” em 2014 e designado “Tesouro Nacional” em 2015 pelo National Trust for Historic Preservação. Seu livro, Historic Wintersburg in Huntington Beach , foi lançado pela History Press em março de 2014.
Atualizado em abril de 2016
Stories from This Author
Women in Wintersburg
8 de Janeiro de 2013 • Mary Adams Urashima
Yukiko Furuta was not a picture bride and she did not remember meeting any picture brides in the area. Her marriage was arranged by family and friends. C.M. Furuta—who had been living in America since 1900—traveled to Japan to meet his prospective bride. “…One day this lady asked her to go to a public bath house with her,” explains the translator for Yukiko Furuta’s 1982 oral history interview with CSU Fullerton history professor Arthur Hansen. “When they finished taking the …
Goldfish on Wintersburg Avenue Part 2 - The Living Jewels of the Furuta Gold Fish Farm
19 de Dezembro de 2012 • Mary Adams Urashima
Read Part 1 >> Did you ever wonder why goldfish and koi ponds have been a long tradition in landscapes around Orange County? Most likely, the trend owes its roots to Wintersburg. One of Wintersburg’s most unique business enterprises were the goldfish farms, all owned by Issei (Japanese immigrants). While there was a long history of goldfish farming in Asia, this was a fairly new enterprise for America. The glittering fish delighted the American public and ignited a trend …
Goldfish on Wintersburg Avenue - Part 1
12 de Dezembro de 2012 • Mary Adams Urashima
One of the 1982 oral histories recalling Wintersburg’s past was conducted with Mr. Clarence Iwao Nishizu (by Professor Emeritus Arthur A. Hansen as part of the Honorable Stephen K. Tamura Orange County Japanese American Oral History Project, jointly sponsored by the Japanese American Council of the Bowers Museum Foundation—Historical and Cultural Foundation of Orange County, and the Japanese American Project of the California State University, Fullerton, Oral History Program). Clarence Nishizu’s accounts of Wintersburg are remarkably detailed and revealing of …
