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- Peace Corps Volunteer (July 1967)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (July 1967).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (November 1967)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (November1967).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (February 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (February 1968).
- Newsletters
- Primary School Assembly
- Education; Schools; Children; Teachers and students
- Sierra Leone: Each morning before school, classes lined up to hear announcements.
- Volunteer Photos
- Shower Time
- Water and sanitation
- Sierra Leone, the villagers built this for me. A bucket of tepid water, cup and bar of soap were all needed...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sierra Leone 1986, Man Weaving Cloth
- Artisans
- This picture was taken in Kabala, Sierra Leone and depicts a man weaving cloth in the traditional fashion on a handmade loom.
- Volunteer Photos
- Sierra Leone 1987 Leon and Regina
- Weddings
- This photo was taken in the village of Katta on the coast of Sierra Leone where a crowd had gathered to see the washed up body of a large manatee. In the picture are Leon Poeske and Regina White who met as Volunteers and have been married now for...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sierra Leone 1987, Smoke Drying Fish
- Food and meals; Cooking
- Women smoke dry fish as a way to preserve the fish for sale up country. This woman is lighting a fire under a platform containing over a hundred fish. She will stay under the platform all night to ensure that the fire doesn't go out.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Boys and Their Bird Out for a Stroll
- While taking a walk, I met these boys excitedly meandering their way in the opposite direction. They saw I had my camera and asked for a snap. I saw their bird with its foot tied to a string and made a deal: a snap for the bird's freedom. With a...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Challenge
- Youth
- The youth of Sierra Leone. These guys look like superheroes on a Hollywood movie poster. Stand in their way and you're going down. I met them at their house across from the mosque in town after school. A mixture of primary, secondary, and out...
- Volunteer Photos
- The First Ever Easter Egg Coloring in Loko Masama
- Celebrations; children
- Day Before Easter 1992, Loko Masama, Sierra Leone Submitted for the sharing American culture category. My neighbor children are coloring Easter eggs for their first time. I had to buy eggs from 5 different houses in the village so that I could have...
- Volunteer Photos
- Tilapia nilotica
- agriculture
- Tilapia nilotica is the fish raised in the Inland Fisheries program in Sierra Leone. I took this photo while Skip DuFour, a fellow fisheries volunteer, held it for me following a pond harvest in early 1982.
- Volunteer Photos
- Traditional Sierra Leonean village
- housing
- While traveling to the southern part of Sierra Leone to experience marine fisheries harvesting, I went through the village of Sulima, pictured here. Homes and surrounding grounds were made of all natural materials and emaculately kept.
- Volunteer Photos
- Ye Massa with Segburreh
- Host community friends
- Taken outside my door, Ye Massa stopped to give me this wonderful smile and pose with the segburreh that she was playing as she headed past with a group of women from the local Bondo. Ye Massa and her husband Pa Sam were my friends. They lived...
- Volunteer Photos