1942 9 7 Letter from Kay to Syl and Goth

1942 9 7 Letter from Kay to Syl and Goth

Kay writes "Life must be superficially normal out there too (that expression "out there" seems odd but, that's the way we've begun to think of the place beyond this Camp -- it's just somewhere absolutely apart from us-- we're just a world apart) She thinks of the way it was before evacuation and longs for it, knowing that it will never be the same. She says they gave up everything in Oakland save for some furniture. But the people who were taking care of that moved South. She doesn't know if the family will ever move back there. She describes the dull scene and no entertainment, and no privacy in the barracks. First time (and only time?) that Kay writes "Tanforan Racetrack" at the top of a letter.

We writes about life in Tanforan, reflection on living in a horse stall, teaching English unprepared to high schoolers, and people being suspicious of her trip to D.C. as being in cahoots with the military

Notebook A1 (A.71-72)

Sept 7 1942