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Return to the Valley The post-war resettlement experiences of the Japanese American Community in the Santa Clara and Salinas Valleys and the Central Coast region A documentary from KTEH Silicon Valley Public Television to be broadcast in the fall of 2002 Return to the Valley will be an hour-long program that tells about the resettlement experience of Japanese Americans when they came back after internment. This documentary will feature the histories, memories and photographs of the Japanese Americans (as told in their own words) who came back to the Santa Clara Valley, Salinas Valley, and Central Coast (includes Watsonville, Castroville, Monterey). The program begins with a brief history of the first immigrants and the internment, then progresses to recollections of the Nisei - the generation that rebuilt the community after the war. The program will conclude with a look at today's contemporary Japanese American community and its efforts to preserve the history and cultural traditions such as the Obon Festival. Ken Kashiwahara (former San Francisco ABC News Bureau Chief and Bay Area resident) is the narrator for the documentary. Return to the Valley will be broadcast in the early fall of 2002 on KTEH, the PBS station for the Silicon Valley and Central Coast. Advertisements will appear in the newspapers and Preview, the KTEH member magazine. Look for more upcoming episodes in the Voices of the Valley series, which is the history of the Santa Clara Valley through the eyes of many diverse people. For more information on this series, check out the KTEH website at www.kteh.org. Development funding for Return to the Valley has been provided by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program (CCLPEP)