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    • Active Audience

    • Active Audience

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations; Elders

    • This photo was taken at a Festival of Russian Culture in Vilkova, southern Ukraine in 2009. Many choruses participated, as well as an appreciative audience member! (Note the stance of one of the organizers in the background. She did not seem to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baby and Nana

    • Baby and Nana

    • Elders; Children

    • An average hot August night in Azerbaijan, this is my neighbor and her new grandchild. I think she was always confused about my presence there. Having experienced the Soviet Union, Grandma was reluctant to trust foreigners, even young people like...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bee Girls Love Ukrainian Honey

    • Bee Girls Love Ukrainian Honey

    • Celebrations; Children

    • Young Ukrainian song-and-dance group get ready to perform at a Summer Festival, to celebrate the region's fine Ukrainian honey. Honey producers had put together an extensive display of honey and its health merits, as well as mead, beeswax, royal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Burj (Tower) of the Herat Arg

    • Burj (Tower) of the Herat Arg

    • Statues and monuments

    • Burj is usually translated as Tower; however, Fitzgerald translated it as turret. This was taken in March 1971 in Herat, Afghanistan following the Iran Crosscultural Language Workshop held in Mashad, Iran.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Campesinos Build Mountaintop Airstrip by Hand

    • Campesinos Build Mountaintop Airstrip by Hand

    • Construction; Media coverage

    • Campesinos build a mountaintop airstrip - by hand - near the remote pueblo of Concepción, Intibucá, Honduras. Concepción is cut off from the rest of Honduras by swollen rivers during the rainy season. The airstrip was to be long enough to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dungan Mosque

    • Dungan Mosque

    • Religion; Weather; Terrain

    • The Dungan Mosque in Karakol, Kyrgyzstan, built in the 1920s and still operating. Taken from my apartment window during a blizzard, winter 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Facial Study of a Campesino Coop Member

    • Facial Study of a Campesino Coop Member

    • Host community friends; Traditional dress; Business development

    • Facial study of a Campesino member of a Rio Lindo, Honduras, Savings and Loan Coop in a perplexed moment at a committee meeting. Taken during a photo tour of Peace Corps Volunteer projects in the area. April, 1969.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Friday Brunch with Some Friends

    • Friday Brunch with Some Friends

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Food and meals

    • This was taken at a 'bagh' in north Tehran. I am the one in front with the beard. We are using a samovar, a water boiler used frequently in the Middle East and Russia, especially for tea.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Haircut

    • Haircut

    • Children; Volunteers

    • A Peace Corps Agriculture Co-op Volunteer gives a neighbor his monthly haircut outside the Agricultural Co-op's tienda in Ajuterique, Honduras. The Co-op was featured in the Peace Corps USAID half-hour documentary film "Don Tomas." December, 1970.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Russian Festival

    • Russian Festival

    • Celebrations; Traditional Dress; Art

    • This was taken during a community Festival of Russian Culture in Vilkova, southern Ukraine. Many choruses participated - all with colorful costumes! This is a renowned wine-growing region, which is why a big bunch of grapes is featured as part of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stakhanov Garden

    • Stakhanov Garden

    • Host community friends; Pets; Children; Gardens

    • This young lady held our dog for a portrait in the garden outside my home in Ukraine. She was a good friend of my host-family. Every year the garden was full of flowers and vegetables.
    • Volunteer Photos

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