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    • Saemaeul Picnic

    • Saemaeul Picnic

    • Food and meals

    • This photo was taken in Tongyeong County in the spring of 1976. Government workers were encouraged to spend a day planting rice as part of the "New Village Movement" or Saemaeul. The program was designed to boost the economic developement of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mr. Joe

    • Mr. Joe

    • Food and meals

    • After planting rice at the annual Saemaul Volunteer Day, there was a picnic. This is a photo of Mr. Joe, my counterpart at the county health center in Tongyeong County, spring 1976. Makali was drunk out of a bowl, which when emptied was passed to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Bap Chip

    • The Bap Chip

    • Host community friends; food and meals

    • This picture was taken in Chung Mu City in July 1976. This is the "boarding house" house restaurant where the city and county workers who were living away from home came for their meals. It was run by a woman, her mother, three daughters and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cooking Fish

    • Cooking Fish

    • Cooking

    • This is a photo taken in Chung Mu City at the boarding house restaurant where I ate. This is the grandmother cooking fish over a fire of pressed coal (yan tan). As an american, I was provided a fried egg with my rice, vegetables, fish, and soup...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laundry

    • Laundry

    • Host families; Clothing

    • This photo was taken of the grandmother who owned the house were I lived. Laundry was done by boiling the whites with lye soap and beating them on the rock at the cistern. If the grandmother and her friends were home when I was doing my laundry,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Making Kimchi

    • Making Kimchi

    • Cooking; Host community friends

    • This photo was taken in the boarding house restaurant where I took my meals with the other county and city workers who were living away from home in Chung Mu City. The restaurant was run by a woman, her mother, two daughters and young son. They...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dasain

    • Dasain

    • Children; Youth; Celebrations

    • I took this photo during Nepal's most important holiday, celebrating the triumph of good over evil. The children in this photo are some of my students and their siblings. They are playing on a "ping" (swing). Taken in Shyangja District, Nepal. 1975
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yazd

    • Yazd

    • Architecture

    • This is a picture of the rooftops of Yazd, where I lived, in central Iran - looking north, taken from a mosque in the Bazaar, Circa 1975.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • On Our Way Home

    • On Our Way Home

    • Transportation

    • Me with a stateside friend (who was also a Volunteer in Nepal 66-68) and a Sierra Leonean friend. We were on the way to his home village for a holiday visit during the Christmas break in 1977.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Summer Days

    • Summer Days

    • Youth; Health

    • Partnering with a school in Agadir, located on the ocean, the boys were able to spend a month during the summer on the beach. Being in the ocean gave them a freedom of movement they had not experienced since contracting polio.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Good Catch

    • A Good Catch

    • Fishing; Food and meals

    • My brother in-law, Wickham, is holding up a shark. We had just visited a Japanese owned fishing boat that dumped about 1000 fish, all by catch, into our wooden dugout. The whole village ate well that night.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • New Trade Store

    • New Trade Store

    • Religion

    • Dennis McAdams, Peace Corps Business Advisor, outside of a new trade store at Madou Villiage in the Solomon Islands, with church officials and the church brass band at the opening in May, 1974.
    • Volunteer Photos

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