NEWPORT NEWS — The Newport News Public Library is taking locals into the lives of families separated by the Korean War.
The Newport News Public Library will be hosting “A Long Separation,” which chronicles the lives of people separated from their loved ones in North Korea since the fighting stopped after the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed in 1953.
The event will be at the Grissom Library on Wednesday and Thursday and is free and open to the public.
The exhibition will be displayed from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. on Wednesday and from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Thursday.
In a news release, Laura Pohl, organizer of the series, said “2018 marks 65 years since the Korean War ended in an armistice. It also marks 65 years since spouses, siblings, parents and children who became separated during the war ended up permanently split, living on different sides of a heavily-militarized border.”
“A Long Separation” is comprised of 10 portraits wrapped around a van. There will also be phone numbers visitors can call to hear edited excerpts of interviews conducted by Pohl, according to the release.
Since the traveling series began in 2000, Pohl has helped 20 families reconnect.
