[HistoricCemeteries] Chinese Burial Documentary to screen

[Kuri Gill]

"Come Together Home"
A documentary by Ivy Lin

Watch trailer here-
http://www.vimeo.com/6226018 

Death. Disinterment. Reburial.

Discover the remains of early Chinese immigrants, and their extraordinary final journey from Portland to Hong Kong.

Upcoming screening-

December 4th, Friday, 7pm
5th Avenue Cinema
510 SW Hall St., Portland, OR 97209
*Q&A with the director following the screening


Synopsis-

Block 14 in Lone Fir Cemetery, the first Chinese burial ground in Portland-and site of as many as 1,500 burials-now stands as a fenced off void of gravel after most of the remains were exhumed and shipped back to China in 1928 & 1949.

Sixty years later, Director Ivy Lin follows the footsteps of the missing 1949 shipment in an extraordinary journey from Portland to Hong Kong.



Kuri Gill
Historic Cemeteries Program  & CLG Coordinator
725 Summer St. NE, Suite C
Salem, OR 97301-1266
(503) 986-0685
(503) 986-0793 (fax)
kuri.gill at state.or.us
 
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