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.
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 ...
Day Before Easter 1992, Loko Masama, Sierra Leone
Submitted for the sharing American culture category.
My neighbor children are coloring Easter eggs for their first time. I had to buy eggs from 5 different houses in the village so that I could have...
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...
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...
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...
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.
This picture is of me and village children (mostly primary school students) in Ataa, Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. Ataa is in north / east Malaita and is accessible only by canoe. I took this picture during a holiday during a Nov 1993 visit ...
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...
This photo was taken in 1993 and shows the Navrongo Seconday School boys basketball team and their Peace Corps Volunteer coach. This Team won the Upper East Regional championship in 1993.