Sandra Hoang traveled all the way from Philadelphia to see the show.
She was among hundreds of Vietnamese Americans who turned out Saturday for the opening of a special exhibit in Santa Ana called Vietnamese Focus: Generations of Stories, which uses photographs, videos, art and other materials to tell the story of the Vietnamese community's 40-year history in Orange County. Thousands of Vietnamese refugees settled in the county after the fall of Saigon in 1975.
"Where I am, we don't have access to this information," Hoang said. "There's no collection. That's why it's a thrill for me to see this.