San Luis Obispo County's Connection to Arts and Culture
Behind Barbed Wire, a look at Central Coast Japanese American life during World War II, was held on January 31 at the Clark Center in Arroyo Grande. The program included a live orchestra, a big band, guest performers, poetry, swing music of the 1940s, and a 14-minute video presentation about the ordeal of Arroyo Grande’s Japanese Americans.
It’s called People of Honor.
Jim Gregory taught history at Mission Prep and at his alma mater, Arroyo Grande High School, for 30 years and was Lucia Mar’s Teacher of the Year in 2010. Growing up in the Upper Arroyo Grande Valley and attending the two-room 1880s Branch School was integral to his becoming a history teacher and figured, as well, in the authorship of five books on local history. Three have won national book awards.