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    • A Good Catch

    • A Good Catch

    • Fishing; Food and meals

    • My brother in-law, Wickham, is holding up a shark. We had just visited a Japanese owned fishing boat that dumped about 1000 fish, all by catch, into our wooden dugout. The whole village ate well that night.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • New Trade Store

    • New Trade Store

    • Religion

    • Dennis McAdams, Peace Corps Business Advisor, outside of a new trade store at Madou Villiage in the Solomon Islands, with church officials and the church brass band at the opening in May, 1974.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Friends

    • Village Friends

    • Children

    • I was visiting with the police adminstrator in the village on the front step of his residence. The village youth gathered around me and we were dissussing the day's school activities. The children were a very happy bunch and were quick to share a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • San Roman Pageant

    • San Roman Pageant

    • Sports; Dignitaries

    • We held a fundraiser in the village to raise money for the completion of the community center. Events included sport competitions: soccer, basketball, bike races, swimming races, dance, chicken barbacue and a dance "Jump Up." The photo shows a San...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Laws and Sausages

    • Laws and Sausages

    • Cooking; Food and meals

    • They say there are two things you don’t want to see made: laws and sausages. Having seen both processes, I can say truthfully that sausage-making gets a bad reputation. Here, the patriarch of Istrate family packs some freshly ground pork from...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Angie and Ataline

    • Angie and Ataline

    • Host community friends; Architecture

    • 1991-1993. Papua New Guinea (PNG), Fergusson Island, Salamo. On airstrip next to the river... Angie Harris and Rev. Ataline Fred enjoying an afternoon atop our yam house at the garden.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hristos a Inviat!

    • Hristos a Inviat!

    • Religion; Celebrations

    • As part of Easter festivities, the residents of Cudalbi, Romania color eggs and compete in bouts of egg cracking. One participant issues the challenge by raising his egg and announcing, “Christ has come.” Accepting the challenge, the other...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Iulian's Big Fat Romanian Wedding

    • Iulian's Big Fat Romanian Wedding

    • Weddings

    • One of the true wonders of the Peace Corps is how the lives of two people from a world apart can become so intertwined in such a short amount of time. In August 2005, this man – my counterpart – arrived at a Peace Corps conference to escort me...
    • Volunteer Photos

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