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    • Market Road

    • Market Road

    • Art; Markets

    • While on duty in Liberia, West Africa, I would watch the statuesque, proud women walk to market each morning, gracefully balancing their towering wares on their heads. It was a beautiful insight to the West African day. The parade of swaying...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Under the Palaver Tree

    • Under the Palaver Tree

    • Art

    • While serving in Liberia, West Africa in 1981-82, I was stationed in Cape Palmas teaching Architecture. Because I am an artist I made many watercolor studies of the people and their environments throughout the area. Now I have revived several of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old Friends Getting Together

    • Old Friends Getting Together

    • Volunteers; Food and meals

    • In this photo are the director of Social Security, a Volunteer from 1981 to 1983, and one of the key government members who helped bring the Peace Corp to the island in 1981. We got together for a wonderful seafood lunch and to catch up on our...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Recent History of Anguilla

    • The Recent History of Anguilla

    • Art

    • There are 4 murals that depict the history of Anguilla from the time of Columbus, to the present day, circa 1981. This was painted by a local artist as a gift to the people of Anguilla, and is from a mural in the main government building.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Off to Market

    • Off to Market

    • Markets; Children; Transportation

    • The picture is of my wife Karen, a Volunteer teacher in the secondary school and our 2 children, Peter and Christopher. Chris was born into the Peace Corps in this very hospital. Karen is making her daily trip to the market. Nsanje District...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Buying Raffia Bags in Idembe

    • Buying Raffia Bags in Idembe

    • Children; Crafts

    • One of the places I helped build fish ponds was Idembe, a small village far off any main road, in southern Gabon. This picture was taken when I visited there with another Volunteer, Pat, and our new volunteer coordinator (whose name escapes me). ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Beekeeping

    • Beekeeping

    • agriculture

    • I was inspecting my beehives in Macuelizo, Santa Barbara, Honduras when the sisters Dina and Senovia offered to help (1981).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Building Tilapia pond during training

    • Building Tilapia pond during training

    • agriculture; fishing

    • For the Inland Fisheries Program in Sierra Leone, training took place at Makali Fish Station. A site was selected by the earlier group of fisheries volunteers and a pond was built by those volunteers and trainees and local residents of the country.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Installing bamboo outflow pipe in fish pond

    • Installing bamboo outflow pipe in fish pond

    • agriculture

    • Inland fisheries program in Sierra Leone was implemented by working with rural farmers to build ponds and raise Tilapia nilotica as a source of protein. A pond was constructed during training and a piece of bamboo was installed to serve as the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Sierra Leonean village

    • Traditional Sierra Leonean village

    • housing

    • While traveling to the southern part of Sierra Leone to experience marine fisheries harvesting, I went through the village of Sulima, pictured here. Homes and surrounding grounds were made of all natural materials and emaculately kept.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tilapia nilotica

    • Tilapia nilotica

    • agriculture

    • Tilapia nilotica is the fish raised in the Inland Fisheries program in Sierra Leone. I took this photo while Skip DuFour, a fellow fisheries volunteer, held it for me following a pond harvest in early 1982.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Muslim Writing Board

    • Muslim Writing Board

    • religion; youth

    • I had wanted to get an Islamic writing board to bring home and show American children what is used in Muslim schools in Sierra Leone to teach Arabic and learn passages from the Qur’an. No one was willing to part with theirs so I bought a new one...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Installation of Bamboo Pipe for Pond Drain

    • Installation of Bamboo Pipe for Pond Drain

    • fishing; agriculture

    • In December 1981 during in-country training in Sierra Leone for the Inland Fisheries Program, trainees (including myself) contructed a fish pond with volunteers who had served before us and local Sierra Leoneans. This photo was taken as a bamboo...
    • Volunteer Photos

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