By After Coolidge, comes Colorado.
Here you get a break from Kansas, Kansas, Kansas.
Near the small town of Granada, Colorado is the ruins of a Japanese Internment Camp, Camp Amache. (See photo from 1943 of what it looked like then.)
And this is pretty much what the whole camp looks like now. No buildings remain. Just slabs of concrete, scrubby trees, yucca and sagebrush.
The place has a solemn aura.
While we were there, a ceremony of some sort was going on at the cemetery site, but we didn’t intrude.
There was no wind on the day we stopped here with Jim and Susie Aber, so they couldn’t do kite aerial photography. But they took photos on their return to Kansas.
That’s so sad. A national shame.
ANOTHER national shame….
That’s appalling and extraordinary. The excellent novel Snow Falling on Cedars (by, I think, David Guterson? Cheryl will know!) covered similar ground.