When Christine Castillo was small and growing up in San Francisco, her parents would chat about the "camp" in Wyoming and the friends they had made there. To Castillo, it sounded like a wonderful place, and she knew it was where her parents had first met.

“My parents talked about it since it was a part of their history,” Castillo said. “It wasn't all doom and gloom, and their conversations about life at Heart Mountain were actually really fun for me to listen to.”

Her parents told her stories about the World War II Japanese internment camp — the mess hall, incredible pie makers, and their high school teachers. They had baseball and football teams and, best of all, they would talk about the skating rink her grandfather, Shigeru Oba, had built for the community.

“All of these things sound

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