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Virtual Broadcast: Mihara’s Braille Board program
January 23, 2021 at 3:00 am - 4:00 am
50 Objects and NJAHS invite you to “Mihara’s Braille Board”
Date & Time: Sat. Jan. 23, 11 a.m. to 12 noon PST
Guests: Sam Mihara, Nob Mihara and Linda Mihara with Nancy Ukai, 50 Objects, and Melissa Bailey, NJAHS
Join us for slides and a live Q and A about Tokinobu Mihara, who arrived in the U.S. in 1920 and worked as a journalist in San Francisco at the Shin Sekai (“New World”) newspaper before the family was expelled from California in 1942. He became blind while confined at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, and invented his own Braille code which was engraved on a handcrafted board he commissioned at the camp. His sons, Sam and Nob Mihara, who were nine and 11 years when they entered the camp, and Tokinobu’s granddaughter, origami artist Linda Mihara, will be our guests. See you then!
Read the related story, “Mihara’s Braille Board,” to be posted Jan. 19, on the 50 Objects website