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    • Uveges Tanc

    • Uveges Tanc

    • Traditional dress; Youth; Dance

    • This photo was taken in Bekescsaba, Hungary in May 1993 at a folkdance performance in the city center. Many of my students are performing in this group. You will notice the wine bottles on the heads and in the hands of the dancers. The dance...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ms. Louisa and the Outlaws

    • Ms. Louisa and the Outlaws

    • Youth; Dance; Traditional dress

    • Peace Corps Volunteers came together to start an annual Children's English Language Drama Festival in Hungary. This is a photo of my 8th grade students at the finals in Hajdunanas for the inaugural year - 1992. I found the play in a textbook in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kurdish Wedding

    • Kurdish Wedding

    • Weddings; Music; Dance

    • Taken in October 1969 in Kangavar, Iran, this picture was taken at the wedding of my housekeeper's 17 year old son. Prior to the wedding, the bridegroom, family and friends dance through the alleys to music by a reed horn player and drummer.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace Corps Volunteers in Jamaica

    • Peace Corps Volunteers in Jamaica

    • Housing; Transportation

    • This photo shows fellow Volunteer Donna and myself in front of a little apartment in Kingston, Jamaica. Machetes were a common landscaping tool and very cheap. Notice the bike, which was the common way we got around in the city. We were just...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Cleaning Rice

    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Cleaning Rice

    • Food and meals; Cooking; Celebrations

    • For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti, all of the Volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice with pigeon...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Home Sweet Home

    • Home Sweet Home

    • Housing

    • This photo was taken on Christmas Day 1991 from the window of my flat in Bekescsaba. Many volunteers in Hungary found themselves living in a flat in a communist-style block of buildings. I had a furnished, 2-room flat where a large family would...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Family

    • Host Family

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken in the living room of my host family's home in Jaszbereny at Christmas time in 1991. In the photo you can see the grandmother, the 3 children, me and the parents. Volunteers lived with a family during the 3 months of our...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Bekescsaba Knights Softball Team

    • The Bekescsaba Knights Softball Team

    • Sports; Youth development

    • Peace Corps volunteers decided to start a softball league where classes of students could play against each other. This photo is of my 8th grade students at a tournament in Szarvas, Hungary. Our softball equipment was collected by people from my ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • With My Family in Croix des Bouquets

    • With My Family in Croix des Bouquets

    • Host families

    • This picture was taken with my host family shortly before training ended in September of 1984. They took such good care of me. At first they attempted to serve me meals that they thought were Americanized. When they realized how much I liked...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Tending to the Turkey

    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Tending to the Turkey

    • Cooking; Food and meals; Celebrations

    • For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti in 1984, all of the volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Rice and Pigeon Peas

    • Thanksgiving in Hinche: Rice and Pigeon Peas

    • Celebrations; Food and meals; Cooking

    • For our first Thanksgiving in Haiti, all of the Volunteers traveled to Hinche to celebrate with the three forestry and fishery Volunteers and their neighbors. We roasted a turkey and served it along with some Haitian favorites like rice with pigeon...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Swearing In with Loret Miller Ruppe

    • Swearing In with Loret Miller Ruppe

    • Swearing-in ceremonies; Volunteers

    • This photo was taken during the swearing-in ceremony of the third and largest group of Volunteers to begin service in Haiti in 1984. Loret Miller Ruppe, the then-Director of the Peace Corps, came to Haiti to officiate. This photo shows eight of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Wedding Tradition on the Steppe

    • A Wedding Tradition on the Steppe

    • Celebrations; Ceremonies; Weddings; Host community friends

    • Between my friend Lyuba's wedding ceremony and the wedding reception we drove a few miles out into the steppe surrounding the city of Karaganda and tied a red ribbon to a pole. The red ribbon symbolizes anger and unpleasantness, which the newlyweds...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Journal Writing

    • Journal Writing

    • Housing; Terrain

    • Self portrait of daily life in my village. Every afternoon I would sit in the doorway of my rondavel and journal, read or play the guitar as I watched the sunset over the Drakensburg mountains in Lesotho.
    • Volunteer Photos

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