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    • Wedding

    • Wedding
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    • To the best of my knowledge, I was the first Volunteer in the Baltic Countries to marry a foreign national. This is a photo of my wife, Ausra (nee Zatorskyte) Hawkridge, my step-son, Raulis Petronis and me (Arthur D. Hawkridge). Ausra and I wore...
    • Volunteer Trainers

    • Volunteer Trainers
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    • These are the faces of experience- my Volunteer trainers who we thought of as all-knowing. Some so great that their photos are on the 8th floor wall at PC HQ.
    • Uveges Tanc

    • Uveges Tanc
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    • This photo was taken in Bekescsaba, Hungary in May 1993 at a folkdance performance in the city center. Many of my students are performing in this group. You will notice the wine bottles on the heads and in the hands of the dancers. The dance...
    • The Trabant

    • The Trabant
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    • Let me start by saying we were NOT allowed to drive as volunteers. I'm sitting in a parked Trabant (car produced in former East Germany) in front of my building in Bekescsaba, Hungary in June 1993. Most Hungarians used bicycles or public...
    • The Future of Our Ancestors

    • The Future of Our Ancestors
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    • I took this photo while on patrol for poachers in the Kalahari Desert in the African summer of 1995. These people are part of the San Bushmen tribe and are said to be the very beginnings of our human race. They are capable of living happily in...
    • The Bekescsaba Knights Softball Team

    • The Bekescsaba Knights Softball Team
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    • Peace Corps volunteers decided to start a softball league where classes of students could play against each other. This photo is of my 8th grade students at a tournament in Szarvas, Hungary. Our softball equipment was collected by people from my ...
    • Teaching in Ghana

    • Teaching in Ghana
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    • This is my small class of 65 students. Teaching this group was a huge challenge, but well worth it as most of them passed their general art national leaving exam.
    • Tea and Stories

    • Tea and Stories
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    • This is a photo of me with my neighbor, Maria Yegorovna. I would visit her often to drink tea and hear her stories about life as a teenager working in the coal mines of Karaganda during the Great Patriotic War (World War II). She didn't have...
    • Tarxien

    • Tarxien
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    • PCV Carol standing by one of the many statues in Malta presumed to be of the earth goddess. This was in the small town of Tarxien, a main prehistoric site.
    • Tan Tan, Morocco

    • Tan Tan, Morocco
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    • While traveling in far southern Morocco in 1993 with some Peace Corps friends, I came across this shuttered store with a lattice roof. I liked the Kodak sign and the shadows the lattice made, and when the woman walked past, the photo was complete!
    • Swearing-In Day

    • Swearing-In Day
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    • This is taken in front of the American Embassy in Port Morseby just after Jean was sworn-in. Clayton was sworn-in 10 days earlier with the rest of the cohort. Jean's security clearance was delayed - Jean received an individual swearing in from the...
    • Students in Native Costume on Culture Day

    • Students in Native Costume on Culture Day
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    • The Headmaster sent some students - only from his tribe - home to collect ancestral headwear, dress, and artifacts for the Culture Day competition. The rest of the students had to forage in the nearby forest for their attire. The young men are...

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