The founders of Hmongstory Legacy are working with the Fresno State Library to preserve and make public its collection of stories, photos, documents and videos about the Hmong journey from Laos to the United States.
The Galen Beery Collection is the first to debut in the Fresno State Hmong Digital Repository, available now on the library website. Beery was an American humanitarian aid worker for the International Voluntary Services, a precursor to the Peace Corps, and the United States Agency for International Development during the Secret War in Laos. The collection includes his biography, stories about people and locations during the war and photos of his experience and that of the Hmong people he met.
Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval and Hmongstory Legacy founders Lar Yang and David Lee announced the partnership and the website’s debut during the Hmong New Year Celebration on campus Nov. 14.
“History creates the framework for you to build your own identity,” said Yang, Hmongstory co-founder and owner and creative director of Yang Design, the Fresno graphic design company that he founded in 2000. “What we’re hoping to do through this is to take the experience and give it to the viewer in a very authentic way — from the source in their own words.”
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