The Old Church is famous for hanging two lanterns from its steeple on the night of Revere’s 1775 ride to warn of the British ...
Numerous carvings and writings in several languages have been found on the barracks walls of the Angel Island Immigration Station. The overwhelming majority of these remarkable writings are poems ...
More than 135 of these poems have been recorded. The Angel Island Immigration Station was in operation from 1910 to 1940. During World War II, the site was used to hold prisoners of war and as a ...