Erika Gee, director of education for the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, touches at a Chinese poem on a barrack wall on Angel Island, Calif. The cold, damp walls, worn from years of ...

ANGEL ISLAND STATE PARK — At Angel Island Immigration Station, the walls really can talk. Until now, though, they haven’t told the whole story of this notorious West Coast entry point in the heart of ...

History surrounds San Francisco. Sometimes you have to venture into the bay for more discovery. Angel Island is called the ...

Hundreds of heartfelt poems were carved into the walls by those detained at Angel Island's Immigration Station during an era when it was U.S. government policy to drastically limit the number of ...

“Leaving behind my writing brush and / removing my sword, I came to America. Who was to know two streams of tears would / flow upon arriving here?” (Poem 35). These were the words written by a Chinese ...

you may wonder how to identify them. Treat everyone you meet as if they are one and you’ll be right every time. I’d like to send angels to where all the wars are to distract the perpetrators with ...