Local Author Series: Don Davenport

Join us as we celebrate local Omaha author, Don Davenport, and his series on the Kamaishi Heritage.

About this Event

Please join us in the Joslyn Castle Music Room (main Castle building) for a free, all ages, event celebrating local author, Don D. Davenport!

D. D. Davenport has published four books of historical fiction, the most recent, in May of 2025. The series profiles three generations of a Japanese family leading up to WW2 and internment at the TOPAZ relocation center near Delta, Utah.

Don was born in Custer County, Nebraska, attended public schools in Callaway and later graduated from Shelton High School and the University of Nebraska at Kearney. A lifelong learner, he continued his studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and the Metropolitan Community College of Omaha.

During his career as an IT specialist, Don commuted for extended periods to Worcester, MA, Houston, TX, and San Antonio, TX. He currently resides in Omaha with his wife, Marian.

Series summary

In eighteen seventy-three, a bright young man walked away from a secure position in his father’s Tokyo factory in search of a more fulfilling future. A thousand kilometers to the north, a seventeen-year-old girl was forced from her farmland home by an abusive father.

A chance encounter placed them on the same mountain trail near the small village of Kamaishi, and it changed their lives forever. Thus begins the saga of Kamaishi Heritage.

Follow three generations of the Ozawa family as they encounter success and disappointment, some caused by man, others by nature. Toshi will endear you with his high moral character, mixed with moments of elevated naiveté.

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