YAKIMA, Wash.- The long-standing background of Japanese American in the Yakima Valley is the prime focus of a brand-new display at the Yakima Valley Museum.
The Land of Joy and Sorrow is a long-term display at the gallery that takes on the lives and challenges of inhabitants that picked to lay origins in the Yakima Valley around the moment of the World Wars.
Many households resolved in the Lower Valley in the Wapato-Toppenish location where they began their houses, ranches and areas. Flushed with home things and farming tools that would certainly have been discovered in the inhabitants’ houses, Director of Development at the Yakima Valley Museum, Larissa Knopp, states the screen highlights the areas the inhabitants developed in Washington.
“They made an area below and we still …