While reading a book, a boy leans against the side of a mosque in Larabanga, North Western Ghana. The town is known for this mud-built whitewashed Sahelian mosque, said to date from 1421. It is reputed to be Ghana's oldest mosque. The picture was...
This photograph was taken in the North West Region of Ghana in 2005 during the Peace Corps annual bike ride for HIV/AIDS awareness and education. I love this picture because I remember that day so well, there was singing and dancing around a huge...
I took this picture of my friend Mary giving her baby, Dana (whom she named after me) a bath. This picture was taken in 2006 in the compound of the apartment building where I lived in Old Tafo, Ghana.
This picture was taken in 2004 in Old Tafo, Ghana in the Eastern Region at W.B.M. Zion Senior Secondary School. This is my first class of General Knowledge in Art students posing in the field outside our school block. I like the way their violet...
This picture of our camp site was taken in 2005 in the South Western Region of Ghana, near the border of Côte d'Ivoire, at Ankasa Conservation Area. The forest is the most biodiverse in Ghana.
I took this photo in 2003 while we were in Peace Corps training living with our host family. In the photo (left to right) is my husband, Bryan Murray, our fellow Volunteer Michael Loftin, and our host dad Mr. Rochester. Playing dominoes on outdoor...
This is a photo taken in 2003 of where we would hand wash and dry our laundry. We used rainwater collected in a cistern on the roof. We could wash our clothing most of the year, unless the dry season ran long, when we might be out of water for...