Red Lacquer Bridge
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From the writings of Lucile C. Cattermole, teacher for 17 years at the East San Pedro Grammar school, Fish Harbor, Terminal Island, California: "March 4th, 1936. Interest in this Japanese fishing village is not purely local. Educators from many parts of the world come to visit the school. Situated as it is near the steamship docks many visitors find it an interesting spot. People come from great distances to see and study the life and customs of the community. Every year the East San Pedro School entertains several hundred children from schools in neighboring cities. The trip here is part of their study of Japan and the teachers and principals who come with them ask, “Where can we get these songs and dances?” …We have just celebrated Doll Day and more than a thousand people who attended the program, where these dances were featured, were very much interested. Our guest book shows that interest in the celebration is growing. This year there were guests from England, Norway, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Georgia, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Colorado, Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and twenty-nine cities and neighboring towns in California. Among these guests were many school officials, executives, teachers, librarians, and photographers, local people and visitors in Southern California."
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But the village was gone, and no one seemed to know anything about it. Twenty-two years after the death of her Aunt Lucile, Maggie Shelton was given a small cardboard box. In it were treasures from 70 years before—evidence, at last, that her aunt’s stories were true. But instead of solving the mystery, the contents posed deeper and darker questions than before. Who had destroyed this village, leaving not a trace of the 500 homes and 3,000 people who had lived there? Why was it a secret? And where were the children whose sweet faces looked out from the photos her great-aunt had kept in the box?
The contents of that box led Maggie on a journey that ended with the discovery of a treasure her great-aunt had found two generations before her.
About the Author
Maggie began writing stories as a young child. Her audience evolved from her collection of toy bears, to her children, and on to magazine and newspaper readers. She has lived in several countries and been evacuated from three of them; Nigeria, Ethiopia, and Iran. She has studied journalism and creative writing at various institutions including Chapman University and UCLA. She and her husband Guy divide their time between California, Arizona, and Mexico.