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Boston Chinatown Town Hall Meeting !!

August 19, 2017 @ 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Free

Please Join the Chinese American Citizens Alliance – Boston and the Chinese Historical Society of New England – CHSNE  at this FREE event to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad – Golden Spike Ceremony

Speaker: Representative Karen Kwan: District 34, Utah State Representative & Chinese Railroad Worker Descendant

Moderator: Corky Lee

Film Screening: “Canton Army in the High Sierras”
Carving 13 tunnels inch-by-inch through the solid granite of the Sierras in the days before dynamite, an army of thousands of Chinese railroad workers were the backbone and heart of the Central Pacific railroad western half. This film recounts the real story of these workers, their methods of work and the ethnic/cultural values that sustained them through the difficult work of completing America’s first Transcontinental Railroad “from sea to shining sea.”
28 Minutes • Documentary
Produced, Written and Directed by Loni Ding

Please register  (FREE): Boston Chinatown Town hall meeting tickets

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Details

Date:
August 19, 2017
Time:
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Cost:
Free
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/boston-chinatown-town-hall-meeting-tickets-36704591421

Organizer

C.A.C.A Boston Lodge
Phone:
6176583318
Email:
cacabostonlodge@gmail.com
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Venue

Sackler, Tufts University
145 Harrison Avenue
Boston, MA 02111 United States
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Phone:
8577537104