Ferry to Angel Island Provides a Direct Route to History (San Francisco Examiner)

January 9, 2021

Under the lush, rolling hills and waterfront views of Angel Island lies a history less suitable for photos: the story of thousands of immigrants, many of them arriving from China, who were detained and often subjected to traumatizing treatment on their journey to the United States.

Left out of the country’s collective immigration narrative, these experiences were largely ignored by history until 1970 when a park ranger discovered Chinese poetry on the then-abandoned Angel Island Immigration Station, which led to its restoration as a museum.

That history is set to become less accessible, local history experts and advocates say, with the proposed termination of the ferry route from San Francisco to Angel Island from Blue & Gold Fleet. (read more)