http://defiantgardens.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:33:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The following articles appeared in the camp newspaper, Gila News-Courier in Arizona. September 12, 1942 Improvements Despite numerous handicaps, the ingenious residents of the Gila Relocation Center are already constructing clever additions to aid in brightening their new “homes”. Picturesque rock gardens, as the one depicted in the above illustration, at the home ... http://defiantgardens.com/kenneth-helphand/japanese-american-gardens/gila-news-courier-1942-1943/ Professor Helphand, My name is Bill Beardall and I am an Assistant Director of Facilities Operations at NC State University. My areas of responsibilities are Grounds Management, Fleet Services and Waste Reduction and Recycling. I am writing in regard to an article written by Virginia A. Smith, published in our local ... http://defiantgardens.com/admin/vietnam/bill-herrera-beardall-1970/ Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, Oregon 4 Apr 2007. Hello Dr. Helphand, Our daughter is incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, here in Oregon. Just one thesis paper away from a law degree before her sentence was handed ... http://defiantgardens.com/admin/prison/letters/ Material courtesy of Dr. John Creech http://defiantgardens.com/admin/pows/dr-john-creech-wwii/ The following articles that appeared in the camp newspaper, The Topaz Times in Utah. September 17, 1942 Topaz is more than just an engineering marvel. It is more than just an isolated settlement for evacuees. It is the sum total of dreams, deep thinking, courage, and faith—it is a living ... http://defiantgardens.com/admin/japanese-american-gardens/topaz-times-1942-1943/ This note was in answer  to my e-mail regarding their garden: .. the garden idea was just something we thought we'd try, the Iraqi people grow a very big variety of produce. Our garden was grown right out in front of our house. Permission was not needed. The soil is not ... http://defiantgardens.com/admin/iraq/ssg-poukka-31-dec-2004/ This note was in answer  to my e-mail regarding their garden: I came up with the idea, along with Sgt Wanzek, because we were missing home, farming, and the joy of growing something. We had a spell when supply lines were all but cut by the insurgents, and I said we ... http://defiantgardens.com/admin/iraq/sgt-carl-j-quam-jr-iraq-north-dakota-national-guard/ By Hannah Allam, McClatchy Newspapers Dec. 26, 2006 Jaafar Hamid al Ali, supervisor of Baghdad Parks, in Zawraa Park, the only operating park in the Iraqi capital.BAGHDAD — The flowers appear overnight, and in the unlikeliest of places: carnations near a checkpoint, roses behind razor wire, and gardenias in a square ... http://defiantgardens.com/admin/iraq/gardeners-shed-blood-to-beautify-baghdad/ A Detainee Is Denied A Garden, and Hope By P. Sabin Willett Washington Post April 27, 2006 The writer, a Boston lawyer with Bingham McCutchen, represents Saddiq Ahmad Turkistani, who is about to begin his fifth year of imprisonment at Guantanamo Bay. I brought flowers to the isolation cell when I visited Saddiq this ... http://defiantgardens.com/admin/guantanamo/wilting-dreams-at-gitmo/ The Independent, 29 April 2006 |by Andrew Buncombe in Washington With their bare hands and the most basic of tools, prisoners at Guantanamo Bay have fashioned a secret garden where they have grown plants from seeds recovered from their meals. For some of the detainees - held without charge for ... http://defiantgardens.com/admin/guantanamo/guantanamo-bay-prisoners-plant-seeds-of-hope-in-secret-garden/