In this photo, I am with the mother of the family who took good care of my when I was working deep inside Tazekka National Park. Here we are getting ready to prepare this goat for the Aid L'Kabir celebrations held about a month after Ramadan. ...
My Host sister eating a mango in peak mango season (March to May) in Colorado de Abangares. My rural fishing village community in lovely Guanacste, Costa Rica.
This photo was taken on July 16, 2008 at Waterberg Primary Schoool in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). Waterberg Primary is a hostel boarding school where children live and learn year-round. This photo was taken at dusk as the...
Easter is the biggest holiday in Moldova and everyone comes back home to the villages, so they slaughter a pig to have meat for the week-long celebrations. Here are my neighbors, preparing their pig for it's last moments.
Moldova, April 2011
Here's my friend cooking dinner-- sweet potatoes and yams--, after a long walk and carbo loading for the next day. The next morning we grabbed our sugar cane and headed out on our next full day of walking.
"Inviting the world to the table" was nearly impossible for me to pick just one picture of the glorious food from my time as a PCV in Fiji! LIfe revolved around food! My best memories involve planting, catching, cooking, and eating with my friends...
After a long day of tracking wolves, rangers (and Volunteer C.A. Woulfe) have a dinner of bread and rakia in a forestry unit building without water or electricity in the Central Balkan National Park.
This picture was taken at Dr. Pastor's ancestral home in Batangas City, Philippines while my daughter was visiting this past March. Dr. Pastor is like a father to me: he operated on my toe, takes great care of me and my daughter adores him like a...
This paper explores the life of a teacher, John S. Noffsinger, who arrived in Manila in either late May or early June 1910, and taught for two years in Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya.
Nurses; Medicine; Doctors; Disease; Health; Traditional medicine; Teachers and students; Work; Universities
A collection of letters written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving as community health nurses in Malaysia, Niger, Afghanistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Turkey, Peru, Bolivia, India and Togo. No date is given, but the publication appears to...
Marketing campaigns; Agriculture; Community development; Health; Education; Volunteer recruitment
Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps opportunities available to applicants with liberal arts degrees. Discusses program areas including Community Development, Health, Agriculture and Teaching. Although no exact date of publication is...
Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment; Language training
Full text of a brochure that discusses the Peace Corps approach to language training at the time. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from the mid-1960s.
Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities and opportunities for service. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure appears to be from 1981.