New Echoes of Little Saigon StoryMap!

The Echoes of Little Saigon project was developed in 2014 as a graduate studio directed by Dr. Elizabeth Morton, who was then teaching at Virginia Tech. Building on research and community oral histories collected by fellow students, Judd Ullom developed a series of short documentaries tied to a walking tour of Clarendon sites associated with Little Saigon, which debuted in 2015.

Please check out the Echoes of Little Saigon StoryMap, which includes the documentaries along with a historical narrative and additional information about the project. Thanks so much to Rudo Kemper and Liz Nguyen for volunteering to transform the content of Ullom and the rest of Dr. Morton’s studio team into this updated interactive format!

In 2025 Dr. Morton began collecting new oral histories to further document and interpret the stories of Vietnamese American community members who frequented Little Saigon in Clarendon. For more information, or to share your story, please contact Dr. Elizabeth Morton.