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unusual facts about U.S. West Coast



McGehee, Arkansas

During World War II, the outskirts of McGehee was the site of an American detention camp used to house Japanese and Japanese-American civilians who had previously lived on the U.S. West Coast.


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Franco Assetto

For some 20 years he had been married to the prominent U.S. West Coast music patron Betty Freeman; composer Lou Harrison wrote for the two a "Serenade for Betty Freeman and Franco Assetto".

Thomas Adès

The work received its U.S. West Coast premiere by International Orange Chorale of San Francisco.