Tuesday, February 24, 2009
7,000 ‘East Indians' passed through reopened historic landmark
'100 Days, Tara Singh,' momentous words inscribed in Gurmukhi by a man who is counting the days to his release from a holding center called the ‘Ellis Island of the West'.
Words that sound so simple but mask the pain and anguish, the hopes and dreams of just one of the more than 7,000 people of Indian origin who passed through ‘North Garrison' or Angel Island Immigration Station as it used to be called in 1910.
That 'garrison' reopened on February 15, after a $16 million renovation as the Immigration Station Barracks Museum, a place where descendants of those people who may still be around, can go and trace the emotional and poignant cuts on stone and brick, to try to relive what our ancestors in this land went through.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
Words that sound so simple but mask the pain and anguish, the hopes and dreams of just one of the more than 7,000 people of Indian origin who passed through ‘North Garrison' or Angel Island Immigration Station as it used to be called in 1910.
That 'garrison' reopened on February 15, after a $16 million renovation as the Immigration Station Barracks Museum, a place where descendants of those people who may still be around, can go and trace the emotional and poignant cuts on stone and brick, to try to relive what our ancestors in this land went through.
To read the full article, click here..
To read the ePaper, visit: http://www.newsindia-times.com
Labels: Ellis Island of the West, Gurmukhi, historic landmark, immigration records, Immigration Station Barracks Museum, india, North Garrison, people of Indian
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