Locke Foundation Newsletters
Last Updated 12-06-2024)
- Kuramoto Family Legacy – Part Two
- Author Luncheon with Dr. Russell Low
- Locke Bok Bok Man Plaque Unveiled
- The Legend of the Mid-Autumn Festival
- Forgotten Chinatowns Event Draws Capacity Crowd
- Evolution of Red Egg and Ginger Party
- Highlights of the 2024 Locke Asian Pacific Spring Festival
- The Kuramoto Family Legacy Part One and the Locke Boarding House
- Asian American Heritage Park Project
- Soon and Chan Families Forge a Locke Legacy
- Locke Historic Artifact Gets Proper Treatment
- Locke Welcomes Year Of The Dragon
- Isleton Celebrates Chinese New Year
- Locke Boarding House Museum Makes Significant Strides
- The Chinese Tea Ceremony
- Why Do Chinese Prefer To Drink Hot Water?
- Locke Bids Farewell To Talented Neighbor
- Updates On The Town Of Locke
- Celebrate Chinese New Year in Locke
- Locke Oral History Benefit Draws A Capacity Crowd
- Voices: Chinese Women of the Delta Fundraiser Information
- Preserving Locke’s Roots – The Locke Chinese Demonstration Garden
- History of Locke and the Locke Foundation
- Bury My Bones In America – Saga of a Chinese American Family
- Locke Will Feature Dragon Dance To Celebrate Year Of The Dragon
- Chinese Demonstration Garden Renovation Project
- Locke Asian Pacific Spring Festival 2023
- Marshall Discovery State Parks Observes Ching Ming at Gam Saan Trail
- Face Lift For Locke’s Wooden Walkways
- New Memorial Tile Wall
- Happy Days at the Happy Cafe – Nytee’s Story
- Asian Pacific Spring Festival Announcement
- Prominent Citizens of Courtland Chinatown
- Chinese New Year event draws record crowd to Locke
- Ow Wing Fook, An Opera Singe and Revolutionary in the Delta
- Chinese Pioneers: Power and Politics in Exclusion Era Photographs
- 2023 Scholarship Opportunities for Local High School Students
- In Memoriam: Gene Chan 1932-2022
- Lion Dance in Chinese Culture
- Chinese New Year in Locke (Announcement)
- Lucky Chan: Life & Legacy
- Kermit Lan Lee (1924-2022)
- Courtland’s Legacy to Farming: Lincoln Chan
- Boarding House Museum to host exhibit on Chinese Pioneers (February 11-April 16, 2023)
- Tribute to Native Daughter: Lorraine Chun Fong (1928-2022)
- Unsung Heroine of Locke Foundation’s Artifact Catalog Project
- Farewell to A Locke historian, Advocate and Friend (James Motlow)
- Women’s Voices in the Delta: Marie Sue Driggs: Legacy of Independence
- In Memoriam: Wayne Chan
- Grand Re-opening of Isleton’s Bing Kong Tong Building
- Knox College Visits Locke
- A Tale of 2 Chinese American Grocers
- Main Street Rocks @ Locke Asian Pacific Spring Festival, May 21, 2022
- 2022 Scholarship Winners Announced
- Tofu Manufacturing in Locke
- Why is Hop Sing So Angry?
- Locke’s Hometown Hero Spares the Roast Duck
- Irvin Lai 1927-2020
- Locke’s Dai Loy Gambling Hall Honored
- LF Catalogs Museum Artifacts
- LF Named Nonprofit of the Year
- Chopsticks Etiquette
- Gay Hoi Lum, Living the Pioneer Spirit
- 2022 Scholarship Opportunities for High School Students
- Locke Asian Pacific Spring Festival Is Back!
- Historical Trail in California dedicated to Chinese Pioneers (Gam Saan Trail)
- History of Chinese organizations in US
- Locke’s Opera House: Star Theater
- Eddie Jang: Delta’s Horatio Alger
- Square and Circle: Oldest Chinese American Service Organization
- Locke Foundation Needs your Support
- Consortium launches Chinese American Heritage Network
- Saving Face
- Mid-Autumn Festival on September 21
- 2021 Best of Delta Awards
- A Woodcutter’s Son: Alfred Chan
- In Memoriam Janet Jang Friederich 1934-2021
- Asians and Games of Chance
- Locke’s Own Dai Loy
- Locke Foundation 2021 Scholarship Recipients
- Life and Times of Harry Sen
- Chinese View of Mental Health
- Joe Shoong’s Legacy to Locke – The Locke Chinese School
- Dragon Boat Festival
- The Timeless Magic of Mahjong
- Ching Ming or Sweeping the Grave on April 4, 2021
- Jeff Kan Lee: The Journey From A Chongshan Village in California
- Chinese View of Death and Dying
- Distinguished Patrons of Locke Foundation
- 2021 Scholarship Opportunities for High School Students
- 9-Man Volleyball: Chinese Style
- Daisy Mah: The Last Toishan Girl in Walnut Grove
- Carol Lee, Locke Foundation Welcomes Newest Directors
- Locke Historic District
- New Exhibit Debut @ Boarding House Museum
- The Rise and Fall of Chop Suey Houses
- What is the difference between Chinese and Chinese-American Cuisine?
- Honey Loquat Sore Throat Syrup: a staple in Chinese homes
- Dear Friends of Locke Foundation (Chair Stuart Walthall)
- Locke Residents Served with Pride in WW II (Ruth Jang & Harry Jang)
- Vivid Memories of the Bok Bok Man (Bon Bung)
- Po Chai Pills: Panacea for all ailments
- Bridges of Sacramento River Delta
- History of Paintersville
- Home (Alfred Chan)
- Capturing Life Stories of Delta Pioneers: Locke Foundation Oral History Project
- Uneasy Co-existence Walnut Grove Japanese/Chinese (1908-1941), Part 2
- What’s in Chinese Medicine Cabinet?
- Nameless Chinese Tule Workers Reclaimed Delta Swamps
- LF Scholarship Award
- Oral History Project Launched
- In Memoriam: Willis Tom (1926-2020)
- Josiah Gallup: Business Agent to Chinese Merchants
- Highlights 2020 Chinese New Year Celebration in Locke
- Scholarship Opportunities for High School Students
- Boarding House Museum Hosts Free Museum Day
- Civil War Legislator Staunch Supporter of Chinese Labor John Conness (1821-1909)
- Uneasy Co-existence between Japanese/Asian Residents in Walnut Grove (1908-1941)
- Chinese Celebrate Winter Solstice on December 21, 2019
- Distinguished Patrons of Locke Foundation
- LF Fundraiser sold out affair
- John Lee of Walnut Grove: WWII Flying Tiger Hero
- Locke Foundation Lecture Series
- Tule Horse Shoe on Display at New York City Museum
- Filmmakers Come to Locke
- Old “Barn” in the Back of Locke
- Courtland Pear Fair
- Delta Life through Vintage Postcards
- Author Kim Luke speaks on life saga
- 9th Annual Locke Asian Pacific Street Festival
- LF Free to Operate as Traditional Non-Profit
- LF Participants in Bok Kai Festival
- James Motlow Opening Reception & Lecture
- Rio Vista HS Students Receive LF Scholarship
- New Art Studio in Locke (Artist Joy Kuo)
- Coins used by Chinese Immigrants
- Locke Boarding House Joins State Park Diablo Range District
- Scholarship opportunities by Delta High School Students
- Locke in the 1970s (B/W Photography by James Motlow)
- Locke Celebrates Chinese New Year, February 16, 2019
- WWII Service Record of George Marr of Locke, CA (August 8, 1923 – December 10, 1980)
- In Memoriam: John Chun, former Locke Resident (1930-2018)
- 2019 Marks 150th Anniversary Completion First Transcontinental Railroad: Why is 2019 is banner year in Chinese American History?
- Chinese Railroad Worker Photo Exhibit @ 10th Anniversary Locke Boarding House
- 2019 Calendar of Community Programs
- October 2018 Fundraiser
- New Shop on Main Street (Seeker Locke)
- George Locke (Sacramento Union Archives: August 22,1909)
- Morrison Chun, Tribute: Locke Native Son (1920-2018)
- Evolution of Chinese Family Associations, Part I
- LF presents Chinese Helped Build The Railroad. The Railroad
- Helped build America. & Chinese and the Iron Road
- In Memoriam: Celestine Marr Fong (1950-2018)
- Where have all the Delta Chinatowns gone?
- Chong Chan, Lincoln Chan, Douglas Wallace Chan,
- John Wesley Sharpe, Alex Brown, Josiah Pool, Chan
- Tin San, Wing Chong Owyang, Yuen Lai Sing, Chinese National Park Service (NPS) Plaque Installed
- Two Locke Artists Combine Talents in New Book (Brock Alexander & D.R. Wagner)
- LF Awards 2018 Scholarship
- 2018 Locke Asian Pacific Street Festival
- Meet 2018 Locke Foundation Board of Directors Stuart Walthall, Clarence Chu, Anita Lo, Eileen Leung, Dustin Marr, Honey Lum, Darrel Woo, Douglas Hsia, Mark Miller
- Walnut Grove Branch Line Railroad in Locke
- LF 2018 Chinese New Year Celebration in Sacramento
- Chinese New Years in Locke
- Narcissus in Chinese Culture
- LF Awards 2018 Scholarship
- Corliss Suen Lee, Once Upon a Chinese Town: A Place in Time
- In Memoriam: Roberta Jong Yee (1924-2017)
- Nelson Loo receives LF Service Award
- Clarence Chu receives Founders Award at CACS 30th Anniversary Gala for contributions to historic Locke.
- Chinese translation of Native Sons Historical Plaque
- Isleton Chinese Pavilion Restoration
- 2018 Happenings
- LF Fundraiser October 28, 2017
- Fiddletown: Jimmy Chow Story (Fong Chow Yow)
- In Memoriam: Yin Kwan Soon Chan (1912- 2017)
- Clarence Chu (lasting tribute for commitment, advocacy, and preservation of legacy of Locke) receives prestigious CACS Hall of Fame Award
- Will Delta Tunnel Destroy Locke?
- Jeff Gillenkirk Memorial
- Bodhi Temple Plaque (gift to LF)
- Annual Locke Tradition: THE GATHERING
- Chinese Pioneers in the Foothills of Amador County
- Chew Kee & Wife Sigh Choy (Chew Kee Store)
- Dr. Yee Fung Cheung (Herbal Medicine) & son Yee Lok Sam (aka T. Wah Hing) (Herbal Medicine)
- Fiddletown: Elaine Zorba
- 10,000 Steps: One Woman’s Insistence on the American Dream
- Chinese Demo Garden in Full Bloom
- National Historic Landmark Finally Arrives
- Celebrating Asian Pacific Heritage In Locke: A Class Act
- LF Scholarship Awards
- Jeff Gillenkirk: Community Bids Farewell to Friend
- Locke Residents Come Together to Pay It Forward
- Chinese Foot-Binding: Beauty at what price?
- Memorial Park Clean Up
- LF Hosts Dual Events on February 4, 2017
- In Memoriam: Jeff Gillenkirk (1949-2016)
- Frequently Asked Questions about Chinese New Year
- Community Service Award from Asian Bar Association of Sacramento
- Locke Fundraiser Surpasses Goal
- National Historic Landmark Plaque from US Department of the Interior
- The Buddha, Dagger-Clawed Pygmies, and the Leaf
- Chinese Workers in Tobacco and Cigar Industries
- Fire in historic Locke on July 3, 2016
- LF needs your help. Memorial Tiles, Bequest, BH Docents
- New Display at Boarding House (The Locke of Life)
- Chinese Historic Marker on Main Street
- D.R. Wagner, Locke’s Renaissance Man: Artist, Poet, Musician, Teacher
- LOCKE (Text of Locke Historic Marker), Installation
- Who Invented the Fortune Cookies?
- Asian Pacific Spring Festival (May 21, 2016)
- LF Scholarship Winners
- Stuart Walthall Leads Locke Foundation in 2016
- Locke Artist (Ning Hou) Honors Chinese Builders of
- Trans-Continental Railroad at Stanford University
- Bats are favored in Chinese Culture
- The Chinese Farmer’s Almanac Lives On
- Pomelos important symbol in Chinese culture
- LF Celebrates the Year of the Monkey
- Sacramento Museum Day (February 16, 2016)
- Locke Centennial Reunion, (The Way It Was)
- The Chinese Confession Program
- Why is there an Italian Restaurant in a Chinese Town? (”Al the Wop’s”, Alessandro Adami, Alexander “Al” Adami)
- Lights, Camera, Action in Locke
- Locke Demo Garden Update (painting by Beth Chape)
- Born in America: Dustin Marr
- Paper Sons, Paper Daughters, Paper Families…Only in America
- Real Chinese Don’t Eat Chop Suey
- Chinese Demonstration Garden is Bursting
- Boarding House Museum joins SAM (Sacramento Association of Museums)
- Angel Island Exhibit to Close in Jan Ying Building.
- Kim King, Born in America: My first day at School
- Colton Zhang. Locke Teen Returns from World Robotics
- Championships (Mentor Coach Robert Green)
- Locke Centennial Celebration… “If you can dream it, you can do it” …Disney
- It’s all about Face
- Daisy Mah Honored for Locke Memorial Garden Work
- LF receives California State Resolution
- Locke BH Museum exhibits (Gateway to Gold Mountain, Flying Tigers, Life in the Delta: photography exhibit)
- Books For Sale at Boarding House Museum & Locke Foundation Website: Locke, California: A Chinese Community in the Sacramento River Delta. (Images of 1935 Locke buildings compiled Lim Mar from Historical American Buildings Survey).
- Remembering Locke 100 Years, 1915-2015. (History & essays from former and current residents on life in Locke).
- Pat Braziel retires (Chief of staff for Supervisor Don Nottoli, District 5)
- High School Artists Debut in Locke
- Chinese Demo Garden Ready
2015 Special Centennial Edition
- 100th Centennial (1915-2015), Locke’s Legacy Lives On
- Born in America: Too Proud to Beg (Mun Do Lai)
- Celebrating Milestone Birthdays: A Chinese Tradition
- Locke Farm Opens on Main Street
- Delta Residents Reunion Dinner 1950’s Chinese Banquet
- Chinese Superstitions: Believe it or Not
- Classical Music in Locke
- Spring Cleaning for Locke Monument
- Native Sons of Golden West Honor Locke
- In Memoriam: Lim Mar (1942-2014)
- (Kim King), The Old Man and the Sand
- “Gateway to Gold Mountain” Comes to Locke
- Lion Dance in Chinese Culture
- Ching Ming: Traditional Chinese Festival on April 5
- Angels in the Delta
- LF Board Announced New Directors for 2015
- Chinese Demo Garden Gets a Facelift
- Strolling Down Main Street
- LF Newsletter enters 4th year
- Ryde: Off the Beaten Path (Dennis Leary & Chinese Past)
- When Asparagus was King
- Did You Know… (Interesting “facts” by Stuart Walthall)
- Harvest Moon Festival, October 25, 2014: The Day in Pictures
- Walnut Grove: A Tale of Two Towns (Japan Town, Chinatown, Walnut Grove Today)
- Our new Web site is Launched (by Angie Eng)
- From the Chinese Demonstration Garden
- New LF Members
- Photo Fun: Alien Life in Locke
- Locke Centennial Celebration Planning Under Way
- Connie’s (Connie King) Toilet Garden Comeback
- Did you know…(Stuart Walthall, Jay Correia)
- Main Street Awakens at Asian Pacific Street Festival
- From the Chinese Demonstration Garden
- High School Artists Shine at Moon Café Gallery
- A Bout With Mother Nature (Poison oak)
- Locke Centennial Celebration Planning Under Way
- The Art of Chinese Calligraphy
- Locke Through the Lens (Best of Show–Duo Peng)
- From the Chinese Demonstration Garden
- Locke Foundation Supports Walnut Grove Library
- Docent Tour of Locke
- Locke Boarding House Museum / Visitors Center
- LF Membership News
- Photo Fun: The Pellet (Owls)
- Locke’s Jan Ying Benevolent Association
- Locke Centennial Project Seeks Former Residents’ Photos
- Delta Authors Convene in Locke (Joseph Coulombe, DR Wagner, Randy Gutierrez, Sally Ooms, Bill Corp, Chris Spencer, Kelan O’Connell, Jeff Gillenkirk, James Motlow)
- Locke Centennial Survey Wish List
- Memorial Tile Wall Project Expands
- All Signs Lead to Locke
- From the Chinese Demonstration Garden
- Harvest Moon Festival
- The Last Wish of Tom Jung: Delta Patriarch Inspires
- Tom Jung: Reunion Legacy (With translation of recording of Tom Jung’s final words)
- Nearly Lost Daughter and Sister (Mae Tom Chan)
- Delta Pride: Necessity Was the Mother of Invention (Delta Patents)
- Planning for Locke’s Centennial in 2015
- 1st Prize Winner in Locke Foundation Essay Contest
- Asian Pacific Cultural Festival
- What a Long Strange Trip (Long lost Gong returns) (Jessie (Cullivan) Heinzman / Ettamarie Peterson)
- Jeff Kan Lee (personal story & meeting Ettamarie with Gong)
- (Kim King) “Gung-Gung is here!”
- Locke Centennial Building Survey (LCBS) (Wish List)
- New Locke Photographic Building Survey
- New LF Membership
- Main Street Sizzles at Asian Pacific Cultural Festival
- Free Chinese Calligraphy Lessons
- Locke Memorial Park: Final Installation of a Continuing Saga (Dustin Mar, Nelson Loo, Sun Loo, Mary Loo)
- Joe Shoong’s Philanthropy Comes to Locke
- Sun Yat Sen’s connections to Hawaii and Delta Chinese
- Life Members/Annual LF Members
- Locke’s Huckleberry Finn—Irvin Lai (1927-2010)
- Effie Lai (1905-2004) Behind every successful man is His Mother
- Locke Memorial Park and the Garden Girl (Daisy Mah)
- The town of Locke thanks you for your beautiful and meaningful gift
- A Banjo for Jerry Waterworth
- Locke Historical District signs installed on River Road
- Harvest Moon Celebration at Jean Harvie, October 27,2012
- Join the Locke Foundation (Let’s break down this statement)
- Newest LF Members
- Locke Community Park Segues to Locke Memorial Park (Elyse Marr, Whitney Marr)
- Granddaughter of Locke’s Family designs monument (Elyse Marr)
- Life in the Foon Hop Store on Main Street (Chester Cheung)
- Volunteers Beautify Locke Grounds
- LF welcomes newest members
- LF Wish List
- Locke Community Park Arises from Ashes (Whitney Marr Locke Memorial Park Designer)
- All the Days Were Sunny [Roberta (Bobbi) Owyang]
- Oral Interview with Locke Resident (synopsis of group interview with (Genelle (Linky) Hamolka, Diana Lee, Eugene Lee, Roberta (Bobbi) Lee, Wallace Owyang, Walter Owyoung, and Penny Pedersen)
- Heungshan (Zhongshan) Immigrants to the Delta (early Chinese in the Delta), (reference of Lincoln Chan)
- New look for Boarding House Museum
- LF welcomes new members
- Locke Foundation Chair Speaks Out (Clarence Chu)
- Meet Locke Foundation (LF) Board of Director (Clarence Chu (Chair), Eileen Leung, Deborah Mendel, Brock Anderson, Pat Braziel, Dustin Marr, Jay Correia, Tina Giannetti-Mabalot, Lo “Lorenzo” Giannetti, Darrel Woo)
- The Locke Foundation (LF) Moving Into the Future
- Update on Board House Museum & Visitor’s Center Display
- Asian Pacific Spring Festival Comes to Locke (May 19, 2012)
- Locke’s Chinese Vegetable Demonstration Garden
- Cooperative Community Chicken Coop Barn Raising Style
- Purchase a Memorial Tile