Nisei center authors series set to begin

The Nisei Veterans Memorial Center announces its “An Afternoon with the Author” series. The series will be conducted monthly via Zoom conferencing, kicking off at 1:30 p.m. July 18 with award-winning author Julie Checkoway, who wrote “The Three Year Swim Club.”

By means of Zoom, the center will host a different author each month to talk about their work, the story behind the story, and their personal journey on the way to having their work published. Authors are picked because of their work’s tie to the Japanese-American and local experience.

“The Three Year Swim Club” revolves around school teacher Soichi Sakamoto, who took a group of Japanese-American children from a Maui sugar plantation and taught them how to be champion swimmers.

To register, contact NVMC at 244-6862 or deidre@nvmc. org.