by Anonymous
But even if the work is hard, it is worth the freedom that we are allowed, I think…
(From the Topaz Times, October 24, 1942, page 3. Originally titled “Feather Pickers,” written by “a girl who left Topaz to go turkey feather picking.”)
On Monday, around 11:30 AM, we went to work 4 blocks away from our hotel. None of us Coast nisei had ever experienced such a trial (as turkey feather picking).
The smell is terrific until you get used to it; at first everyone felt like leaving for Topaz. We all wore gunnysacks around our waist, had a small knife and plucked off the fine feathers.
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