Farm life -- Oregon -- Tualatin
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn
Oral history interview with sisters Leah Hing and Ruth Chinn, conducted by Jane Leung Larson in two sessions, on April 9 and April 26, 1999. Hing and Chinn discuss their family background and early life on a hop farm in Tualatin, Oregon. Hing also talks about playing in a band whose members were all Chinese American women, and about learning to fly with pilot Tex Rankin in Portland during the 1930s.
Oral history interview with Art O. Sasaki
Oral history interview with Art O. Sasaki conducted by Etsu Osaki in two sessions, on September 9 and September 16, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Sasaki discusses his early life as a second-generation Japanese American in Tualatin before World War II; his experiences while incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Minidoka War Relocation Center during the war; and his experiences working on the family farm in Tualatin.