Exhibit focuses on WWII Partition of India, Pakistan

Partition exhibition

Los Altos History Museum’s new exhibition, “10,000 Memories: Partition, Independence, and WWII in South Asia,” is on display Jan. 29-May 24.

Inspired by the book “10,000 Memories,” the exhibition was developed in collaboration with The 1947 Partition Archive, a Berkeley-based nonprofit. Debuting in Los Altos before traveling statewide and beyond, the exhibition features firsthand accounts, photographs and multimedia storytelling from those who experienced Partition or whose family lived through the creation of India and Pakistan during World War II, when millions were displaced amid widespread violence.

“Partition is an important but overlooked chapter of world history, especially in South Asia, a region from where many of our local residents hail,” said Dr. Guneeta Singh Bhalla, Executive Director of The 1947 Partition Archive and a descendant of a Partition survivor.

For more information, visit losaltoshistory.org/partition.

Lettering at Stanford

Reedy Press recently released “Letters Home from Stanford: 125 Years if Correspondence from Students of Stanford University” by Alison Carpenter Davis.

Davis, who graduated from Stanford in 1979, will be at the Palo Alto Art Center for a free presentation and book signing on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2-4 p.m.

Davis collected handwritten and electronic correspondence from generations of Stanford students, from first letters home freshman year and firsthand accounts of historical events to questions about self and about laundry.

Letter-writers span members of Stanford’s inaugural class of 1891 to members of the Class of 2016. Students address historical events like the end of World War I and moments in their college careers, like making the newspaper staff in 1923.

The Palo Alto Art Center is located at 1313 Newell Road, with the entrance on Embarcadero Road; Davis’s presentation will take place in the auditorium.