The Beginning of My Life

Maker Abe, Joe

Date1943

Made WhereNewell, California, United States

Mediumpaper

Dimensions10.5 x 8 in

ClassificationsArchives

Credit LineIn Memory of Garrett Starmer, Gift of the Starmer Family

Object number2020.16.1

DescriptionAutobiographical essay written by Joe (Kiyoshi) Abe, dated January 22, 1943. The essay was written for Garrett Starmer's Senior Problems Class at the Tule Lake High School. Joe writes that he was born on July 7, 1925 in Sacramento, California, and that he was the seventh member of his family. He notes that his father was a farmer in Northern Sacramento, but since agriculture was struggling there, he moved to Maryville where his father found great success up until their incarceration.