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    • 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
    • Students

    • Students

    • Music; Host community friends; Teachers and students

    • Pictured are my students from Goldbedaugh, Iran, a small village of about 50 people located about 5 or 6 miles from Kangavar, the county seat, where the school was located This village had no electricity in 1970, and students either walked or...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing to Spray Fruit Trees

    • Preparing to Spray Fruit Trees

    • Children; Host community; Environment

    • Ernie is showing neighbor children Behrouz Salehi and Shahab Daregari what he is doing to prepare the pesticide to spray on the fruit trees. This photo was taken at our house in Kerend, Iran, Summer 1970
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friday Picnic

    • Friday Picnic

    • Food and meals

    • Picnicking is a popular past time in Iran on Friday, the Islamic day of rest. Several times a year my fellow teachers at Ebn Sina High School, in Kangavar, Iran, would picnic in the woods along a stream just outside of town, as pictured here in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Picknicking with Students

    • Picknicking with Students

    • Food and meals; Host community friends

    • Picnicking is a popular past time in Iran on Friday, the Islamic day of rest. Once a year several of my fellow high school teachers in Kangavar, Iran, would select some of their best students and reward them with a picnic. Picnics were in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lak Family

    • Lak Family

    • Housing

    • This picture is of a Lak family in the mountains of west-central Iran in Lurstan province, several hours by jeep or motorcycle from the nearest town. This family summered in the mountains and wintered in south Iran. They live in large tents and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Children on the Street

    • Children on the Street

    • Children

    • In Iran in the late 1960's children would flock to any foreigner and call "mister...mister", barely the only English children knew. This streen scene in Harsin, Iran, in April 1970 could have been taken in any of hundreds of small towns and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bentleys and Salehis in Kerend

    • Bentleys and Salehis in Kerend

    • Host families

    • This was our "family" in Iran. Ernie is on far left. Sue is 3rd from right. Mr. Salehi and Mrs. Salehi are 3rd and 4th from left. Salehi children are in front. Behrouz is squatting down with his younger brother. The other women in the picture are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The President's Welcome

    • The President's Welcome

    • Dignitaries

    • His Excellency Hamani Diori, the first president of Niger, is personnally welcoming each 1967 Peace Corps Volunteer to Niger. The Volunteer welcome included a dinner with the President, the First Lady, other government officials, several embassy...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Facial Study of a Campesino Coop Member

    • Facial Study of a Campesino Coop Member

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress; Business development

    • Facial study of a Campesino member of a Rio Lindo, Honduras, Savings and Loan Coop in a perplexed moment at a committee meeting. Taken during a photo tour of Peace Corps Volunteer projects in the area. April, 1969.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tegucigalpa at Dusk

    • Tegucigalpa at Dusk

    • Terrain; Urban sites

    • View of Tegucigalpa, Honduras at dusk from the hillside barrio where a Peace Corps Volunteer photographer during his years in Honduras. February, 1970.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Haircut

    • Haircut

    • Children; Volunteers

    • A Peace Corps Agriculture Co-op Volunteer gives a neighbor his monthly haircut outside the Agricultural Co-op's tienda in Ajuterique, Honduras. The Co-op was featured in the Peace Corps USAID half-hour documentary film "Don Tomas." December, 1970.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Three Boys in a Window

    • Three Boys in a Window

    • Children

    • Three young boys stand in the window of a small library in Catacamas, Honduras. Taken during a photo tour of Peace Corps Volunteer projects in the area. April, 1969.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Campesinos Build Mountaintop Airstrip by Hand

    • Campesinos Build Mountaintop Airstrip by Hand

    • Construction; Media coverage

    • Campesinos build a mountaintop airstrip - by hand - near the remote pueblo of Concepción, Intibucá, Honduras. Concepción is cut off from the rest of Honduras by swollen rivers during the rainy season. The airstrip was to be long enough to...
    • Volunteer Photos

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