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The Chinese Massacre: One of Los Angeles' Worst Atrocities
In Santa Ana stands the site of a former Chinatown that was burned down
in one of the most brazen acts of officially sanctioned anti-Asian violence in Southern California
until the World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans.
This Chinatown once included lodging, drugstores, curio shops, two Chinese wash houses and a vegetable garden and barn.
Chinese workers built most of the irrigation c…

When Santa Ana Burned Down Its Own Chinatown
Behind what used to be Santa Ana City Hall is a parking lot and lofts that was once the location of Orange County's largest Chinatown — until the city council ordered it burned down.

This Earth Day, I'm grateful for the many different ways I get to encounter the living world, from wild landscapes to manicured gardens, from trees by the sidewalk to protected green spaces
Mt Roosevelt over Snow Lake; the Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum; a robin in New Haven; a lupine at Sepulveda Basin
#naturalist

@… Thought you might be interested in this.
https://mastodon.tomodori.net/@vga256/116859731748508400

vga256 (@vga256@tomodori.net)
Attached: 4 images found this hidden gem on the garden. it's a japanese hypercard game called Summer Vacation - Search for the Golden Beetle (夏休み・黄金のかぶと虫を探して, Natsuyasumi - kogane no kabutomushi o sagashite) the pixel art is just insane - such a careful balance of positive and negative space in each rendering. it plays very much like early Cyan games like The Manhole - pure exploration. thank you macgarden archivist baku for finding, buying, and preserving thi…

Anyone know what could cause a Japanese maple to suddenly die in the Spring? Leaves are all shriveled but not yet crispy. Not my tree but I'm curious. Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. #maple #trees #disease #arborists #garden #gardening