Chinese Reconciliation Park
In the quiet back roads of the Delta in Northern California, caressed by the lazy flow of the Sacramento/San Joaquin Rivers, lies the town of Locke. This historic district is frozen in time as a chronicle of a period when “undesirable” immigrants, specifically the Chinese, were openly discriminated. It stands as an eerie testament to America’s anguished affair with its complicated diverse populace. Once a refuge for the poor, the tired and struggling to be…