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.
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
ACTION/ Peace Corps Volunteer is an agricultural is an agricultural extension agent in the village of Gahvareh, Iran. He is shown examining the leaves of a youngtrr with an Iranian gardener.
The Aymara of the Bolivian Altiplano are often considered to be dour and unsmiling. Nothing further from the truth, as can be seen by Dona Manuela ready to have a try at shearing one of her sheep with hand shears. Instructing people in the local...
My dear friend, Cora, in front of her newly-updated home in El Paragua, La Republica Dominicana. The kitchen is the new addition on the left. Previously, her "kitchen" had consisted of a fire pit in the middle of the front room of her house. We...
Three girls that were neighbors but they were friends with each other. One was a Hindu, one was Muslim and one a Christian. The little boy was a younger brother of the first girl. Despite their religious differences they always hung out together.
I was a Volunteer from 1984-1986 in Pajiza, in the province of Sta Elena, Ecuador. This gentleman owned one of the two stores in town, and this is the youngest of his two daughters.
After being away from the village for a week, I came home and found this- my girls and my small gentleman playing on the ground outside of our compound. they were so excited that their very own foreign entertainment was finally home and when I took...
I took this photo sometime in 1976, in my front yard as the sun was setting. I lived in "the round house" on the beach, behind the Peace Corps compound in Monrovia. The children were my neighbors who spent many hours sitting in my living room...
My neighbor’s family consisted of the previous mayor of the village, Meri, where I was posted, his 3 wives and countless children and grandchildren. I brought marshmallows, graham crackers, and chocolate to their house to make s’mores and the...