Exhibit Reception for Members Japanese War Brides: Across a Wide Divide

CCHS Members: Please join us for an evening at the museum featuring a screening of fall seven times get up eight THE JAPANESE WAR BRIDES A film by Lucy Craft, Karen Kasmauski, and Elmira’s own Kathryn Tolbert. Along with the screening, Kathryn will give a talk and open the floor for comments. This event is free, but seating is limited. Registration is required. We ask that if you register but cannot make it to please let us know as seating is limited.

Members Register HERE

This screening and talk coincide with our current Smithsonian exhibition, Japanese War Brides: Across a Wide Divide.

Kathryn has worked for The Associated Press, The Boston Globe and The Washington Post as a reporter and editor. When she worked for the AP in Tokyo, and later for The Washington Post’s Tokyo Bureau, she often wrote about Japanese women. The war bride story is one she has known she should tell, but looking into the lives of others comes more naturally than delving into her own mother’s. Working with Lucy, Karen and the Blue Chalk team has made it possible to finally tell her story.

This event is supported by the United States–Japan Foundation

 Japanese War Brides: Across a Wide Divide” is a collaboration between the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, National Museum of American History, and War Bride Experience, Inc.

 On display through February 28, 2026