A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
This photo shows men preparing a field for planting potatos using foot plows. This was in 1969 in the Community of Pampaconga, Peru, where I provided assistance with a Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture counterpart.
The Aymara of the Bolivian Altiplano are often considered to be dour and unsmiling. Nothing further from the truth, as can be seen by Dona Manuela ready to have a try at shearing one of her sheep with hand shears. Instructing people in the local...
The Tuareg camel riders completed the 1967 Independence Day Parade in Niger. The Tuareg are the desert people of Northern Niger. The camels are sensitive to humidity and are limited to desert conditions. This is about 15.3 degrees latitude, the...
Flag-waving, music, marching and declamations are mandatory for any official event in Bolivia. Often, as in the case of this event, the inauguration of the new teachers' living quarters in the town of Comanche, all the school kids participate....
This photo was taken in Jabalpur, MP, India in 1969. Indian farmers received numerous awards for thier outstanding agriculture and poultry farms. I was thier friend, poultry outreach worker and camera owner. They were very pleased with the ceremony...
Three girls that were neighbors but they were friends with each other. One was a Hindu, one was Muslim and one a Christian. The little boy was a younger brother of the first girl. Despite their religious differences they always hung out together.
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
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...
This photo was taken in my friend Subaiya's garden. She did not have a camera and wanted to have us in a photo together. She tutored me in Hindi for the first year I lived in Jabalpur. She was a teacher at one of the local schools.
Bolivia, fall (our spring), 1968. Alejandro (l) and Porfirio (r) checking out some radishes from a little demonstration garden plot. The altitude, cold and dryness of the Altiplano are not conducive to many food crops. However, some cold-climate...
This is a photo of Moti Laal. He was our cook, houskeeper, protector, friend, and true cultural advisor. He dressed up this day to have his photo taken. He is standing outsde of the front door to our bungalow. Note his new attire and the screened...
This photo, taken in 1969, is of Volunteer Jim Hencin along with the host family in whose house he lived in Limatambo, Peru. The family owned a restaurant/pension that served many travelers who stopped on their way to and from Cuzco, the regional...
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...