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- Peace Corps Times (September-October 1989)
- Newsletters--1980s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (September-October, 1989)
- Newsletters
- Imam Bafoday Darahmay
- Elders; Children; Housing
- Sitting on the porch in dry season.
- Volunteer Photos
- Inland fisheries
- Fishing; Work
- This photo shows J. Carl, Inland fisheries Volunteer in Liberia, working on a water control feature, part of the main channel for the Duo Town Fisheries Complex. The other fellow (in the trench) is Stanley, a farmer and master carpenter. Carl...
- Volunteer Photos
- Samburu Moran, Easter
- Celebrations; Ceremonies; Religion
- This is a photo portrait taken of a L 'Moran warrior north of Archer's Post (north of Isiolo, Kenya) when I visited a friends mother's traditional Samburu manyatta campsite over the Easter Holiday. 1986
- Volunteer Photos
- Kambi Sheik Water Project
- Water and sanitation; Celebrations
- This photo shows a pipe trench built by the Borana people of Sheik (just outside of Isiolo, Kenya). This will carry clean water to their settlement.
- Volunteer Photos
- Borana People at Kambi Sheik Water Project Celebration
- Water and sanitation; Celebrations
- This photo shows the Borana people of Sheik (just outside of Isiolo, Kenya). They are celebrating the fact that they have just laid over a mile of pipe to carry clean water to their settlement.
- Volunteer Photos
- Dancing at Kambi Sheik Water Project Celebration
- Water and sanitation; Celebrations
- This photo shows Borana women of Sheik (just outside of Isiolo, Kenya) dancing as part of their celebration after laying pipe for a clean water project for their settlement.
- Volunteer Photos
- Kambi Sheik Water Project Celebration
- Water and sanitation; Celebrations
- This photo shows the Borana people of Sheik (just outside of Isiolo, Kenya). They have just laid over a mile of pipe to carry clean water to their settlement.
- Volunteer Photos
- Stylin' in the Solomons
- Traditional dress
- This photo of me was taken at some point during my three years serving in the Solomon Islands. It is made from the teeth of dolphins, and the villagers got a kick out of this, as normally this type of adornment is worn by a woman.
- Volunteer Photos
- Day of the Dead
- Celebrations
- Peace Corps Volunteer Alan Yount at a Day of the Dead celebration in a cemetery in Guatemala in 1986.
- Volunteer Photos
- Fresh Coconuts!
- Children; Environment; Food and meals; Agriculture
- A child from my village would climb the coconut tree in my back yard and get coconuts - one for me and the others to sell.
- Volunteer Photos
- Charles and His Ride
- Children; Animals; Transportation
- This 1986 photo shows my young neighbor Charles, stopping by my house on his way to "somewhere." Charles was one of the boys who built a weight room behind my old house. where he and his buddies now pump iron on their way to bulk and glory.
- Volunteer Photos
- With Friends in Croix des Bouquets
- Children; Host community
- Ann and I walked to school each morning during training in the company of this beautiful group of children.
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- Hospital - shhh!
- Signs
- While on a trip back to Guatemala in 2008, where I was a nursing Volunteer, I saw this sign in Antigua. It made me laugh!
- Volunteer Photos
- Fisheries Trainee with Local Kids
- Children; Pre-service training (PST)
- Freshwater Fisheries Peace Corps Trainee Jeff Farr hanging out with local kids at the living compound for Peace Corps trainees. Mumias, Kenya, 1985.
- Volunteer Photos