Join Lanesboro Arts in the Gallery on Sunday, October 5th from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. to visit with Author Caren Stelson and hear about her new book “Returning the Sword”. She will have her books for sale in the Gallery and will be offering to sign copies.

How a Japanese Sword of War Became a Symbol of Friendship and Peace
written by Caren Stelson and illustrated by Amanda Yoshida

Returning the Sword

In 1945, just after the end of World War II, Captain Orval Amdahl brought home a Japanese sword as a souvenir of war. Sixty-eight years later, he gave it back.

Orval Amdahl grew up in rural Minnesota and enlisted in the Marines during World War II. In August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war. Soon after, Orval’s division was sent to keep the peace in Nagasaki, and the devastation he witnessed there haunted him. When he returned home, he tried to move on, but he couldn’t forget the war―or the sword. And many years later, at the age of ninety-three, he got a chance to do something incredible. He met with the family of the soldier who had owned the sword and returned it to them.

A powerful story of war, peace, and reconciliation.

 

Learn more about Caren Stelson, here: https://lanesboroarts.org/juried-sales-gallery/caren-stelson/