Heart Mountain Interpretive Center — Attraction in Powell

Today, the Twins, decided it was high time to find out what Heart Mountain Interpretive center was all about.

As we parked and entered the Center, we were greeted by a guide who gave us information regarding the Center and what we would be seeing.

We watched an old movie that gave insight on what had taken place all those many years ago. As i left the theater, my heart felt heavy that a President, who should have been protecting these 'Americans' rights, chose instead to do just the opposite and destroyed many lives in the process.

Much information is contained in the Center and, at a cost of just $7 (senior), you can learn a great deal through murals, short movies, as well as talking to the staff.

The most interesting part of the day was standing between a couple of worn down barracks, and walking the worn trails so as to get pictures of the hospital, a guard tower and get a feel of a part of history that I pray never happens...

This is a place that every American should visit! Japanese internment is a part of our history that is usually not taught, and if it is, it is not covered adequately. The displays are written in the first person, so it's as if you are hearing from one of the captives. The path through the building starts with the bombing of Pearl Harbor and progresses chronologically from the building of the barracks until the last person leaves in 1954. The grounds of the property have stands where you can use your phone with the new Heart Mountain AR app to see characters doing an activity that would happen in that space. This is all privately funded, and they are still able to keep adding to the museum. We take all of our out-of-town guests there, and they have all raved about it when they were back home.

Check for winter hours. I think it's just one...

Heart Mountain Interpretive Center Never imagine seeing the place like this before. It's a kind of detention camp of Japanese people in USA land at the world war, especially after the Pearl Harbour attack and along with the Pacific war.

A history about the mass rounds up of Japanese American citizens and non citizens in all over the USA being rounded up and imprisoned in relocation camps. Even in the story I read there, they had been treated humanely as a political inmate but Freedom is the most essential thing in life and there's no place like home.

A bitter pill to swallow wherever there's a war between leaders countries and armies. Then all the citizen should take those pain even they do not know anything about the cause of war and why they fight one another.

Now this place becomes a historical site and one of the...