Posted on May 24, 2022
Portland’s Japan Institute seeks to grow diplomacy through art and gardening
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Portland’s Japan Institute seeks to grow diplomacy through art and gardening
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
Cpl Vic Burk Put it on the "Bucket List" Know the Other Side of the Nagel/Taylor Clan.
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Cpl Vic Burk Both of Those 2 "Little Lasses" are Taller than My Shoulder Now! "Little Girls" "Little Women" LOL! They are Nagel/Dawes/Scott/Wesling/Ronsiek/Bovershmidt. I Don't Make Little Ladies, I Make Tall, Scary Ladies! LOL!
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Cpl Vic Burk
PO1 William "Chip" Nagel - Cute little girls Brother Chip! My youngest daughter is 6' 2". I don't know where she got that from.
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Cpl Vic Burk - I Long Ago Realized that My "Little Girls" Made it their Mission in Life to Scare the "Holy Shit" Out of the Old Man! Not an Easily Accomplished Mission with an Old Navy Spook! Yet they Think it is Their Mission!
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."The garden will soon be able to host artists and diplomats from around the world, in the new Japan Institute, currently under construction.
Sadafumi Uchiyama looks forward to 2024 when construction will be complete. He’s been a longtime fixture on the grounds and comes from a long line of Japanese gardeners.
“My family has been in the garden building business for over a century. So I am a fourth-generation in my family,” he says.
Uchiyama emigrated from southern Japan to the U.S. in 1988 to study landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. In 2003, he joined the Portland Japanese Garden as a board member. In 2008, Sada became the garden’s first garden curator. And in 2021, he became chief curator and director of the International Japanese Garden Training Center."...
..."The garden will soon be able to host artists and diplomats from around the world, in the new Japan Institute, currently under construction.
Sadafumi Uchiyama looks forward to 2024 when construction will be complete. He’s been a longtime fixture on the grounds and comes from a long line of Japanese gardeners.
“My family has been in the garden building business for over a century. So I am a fourth-generation in my family,” he says.
Uchiyama emigrated from southern Japan to the U.S. in 1988 to study landscape architecture at the University of Illinois. In 2003, he joined the Portland Japanese Garden as a board member. In 2008, Sada became the garden’s first garden curator. And in 2021, he became chief curator and director of the International Japanese Garden Training Center."...
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