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From Thorns to Blossoms A Japanese American Family in War and Peace

August 19
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

OSF Carpenter Hall

From Thorns to Blossoms A Japanese American Family in War and Peace

Ashland Together and Bloomsbury Books are happy to bring Mitzi and David Loftus back for an encore presentation of their book, From Thorns to Blossoms A Japanese American Family in War and Peace. Mitzi will share her experience in the camp and the aftermath of that experience. David will provide some history and context for the story.

From Oregon University State Press new books 2024:

“Born on a fruit orchard in Hood River, Oregon, in 1932, Mitzi Asai Loftus spent three years of her childhood in government incarceration camps in California and Wyoming. For more than seventy years, she has given public talks about her family’s experience to audiences of all ages. Having lived much of her adult life in Eugene and Coos Bay, she now resides in Ashland.

Writer, editor, actor, and voice artist David Loftus is a native Oregonian. The author of several books, David has acted on stage and in film, recorded books for the blind, and read literature aloud at bookstores, coffee, shops, and pubs in a series he calls “Story Time for Grownups.” He lived 10 years in Boston but has been a Portland resident since 1991.

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