Sunday, March 28, 2010By Freesia Singngam, Staff Writer
Bristol Press
A family of Cambodian refugees that came to Bristol after the Khmer Rouge genocide is being featured in an upcoming exhibit at the American Textile History Museum in Lowell, Mass.
The name of the exhibit is "More Than a Number," and it’s a Light of Cambodian Children project. Its goal is to show that Cambodian refugees are "More Than a Number," said Sopheap Theam, a 1998 graduate of Bristol Eastern High School and member of the committee putting the exhibit together.
Theam came to the United States with her family in 1984 sponsored by Zion Lutheran Church in Bristol. She grew up in Bristol and moved away after she graduated from college. She still has family members in the area, who are active at Zion Lutheran, but she moved to Lowell, where her mother lives.
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