Heart Mountain press releases include announcements about upcoming events, new exhibits, general news about the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, and other important information.
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Read through recent and past Heart Mountain press releases below:
Heart Mountain Honors the Memory of Karen “Kiwi” Burch on Juneteenth
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation mourns the passing of Karen “Kiwi” Burch, a member of the Albright-Marshall family that received the LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award for the support they provided to their Japanese American neighbors in the Los Angeles neighborhood known as J-Flats during the war.
Heart Mountain Congratulates Higuchi on Becoming Bar Association President
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation congratulates its board chair, Shirley Ann Higuchi, on her election as the first Asian American president-elect of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (BADC).
Heart Mountain Mourns the Passing of Dr. William Higuchi
William Iyeo Higuchi, who was incarcerated as an 11-year-old boy from San Jose at Heart Mountain and who became a pioneer in pharmaceutical sciences, died Friday, May 10, at his home in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was 93.
Heart Mountain Pair to Speak at George H.W. Bush Presidential Library
Sam Mihara, who was incarcerated as a child in Heart Mountain during World War II, will join Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Executive Director Aura Sunada Newlin for two presentations Friday, May 3, at the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, Texas.
The Go For Broke Spirit Exhibit Opens at Heart Mountain
The Go For Broke Spirit: Portraits of Courage, an exhibit of portraits of Japanese American World War II veterans by photographer Shane Sato, will open Wednesday, April 24, at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center.
HMWF/JANM Panel to Honor Takashi Hoshizaki
The remarkable life and career of Takashi Hoshizaki will be the focus of “The Importance of Telling the Japanese American Resisters’ Story,” an April 27 panel at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles led by the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and the Mineta-Simpson Institute.
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Becomes a Smithsonian Affiliate
The Smithsonian Institution has selected the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation to join its network of Smithsonian Affiliates. As a Smithsonian Affiliate, the Foundation will have the opportunity to collaborate on unique educational programs and workshops, participate in professional development, co-develop youth programs, host traveling exhibitions, and other opportunities offered in collaboration with the Smithsonian.
WRA Files of Heart Mountain Draft Resisters Now Available
Government records for the Heart Mountain incarcerees who resisted the draft during World War II are now available for family members, researchers, and the general public in our draft resisters section on the website.
Heart Mountain Named Finalist for 2024 IMLS National Medal for Museum and Library Service
The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced today that the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation is among 30 finalists for the 2024 National Medal for Museum and Library Service. Heart Mountain is the third institution in Wyoming to be selected as a finalist for this award.
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Remembers the Legacy of Judge Raymond Uno
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation mourns the death March 8 of Judge Raymond S. Uno, a former Heart Mountain incarceree who became the first ethnic minority judge in Utah and president of the National Japanese American Citizens League.
Heart Mountain Pilgrimage Registration Opens March 1
Early registration for the 2024 Heart Mountain Pilgrimage and the grand opening of the Mineta-Simpson Institute at Heart Mountain opens Friday, March 1 on the our Pilgrimage page.
Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation Helps Stop Fee Increase for Immigration Case Files
The efforts of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation and other genealogical researchers were successful in stopping a proposed increase in fees to access alien cases files and other critical immigration records.
