This photo was taken in 2005 on a return visit to Turkey, and Ayvali Koyu after 38 years. In 1967 Veli was a modern farmer, because he farmed with a horse, and not a water buffalo, and because his plow had a metal rather than wooded blade.
Veli...
This photo depicts, Veli Genc, a friend of mine from Ayvali Koyu in Eskisehir, 1967. It was taken on a return visit in 2005. Shown are Veli, his daugher, her daughter and Veli's great grandson. They are sitting in the daughter's apartment in...
This photo depicts the Turkey 10 group of community development Volunteers about to leave Los Angeles for Turkey in 1966. We made stops in Greenland, Copenhagen, and Istanbul before arriving in Ankara, Turkey.
Upon returning to the visit to the village I worked in as a community development Volunteer, I made a visit to the local school. Struggling with my Turkish I told them that I was the director of "a school for children before elementary school." ...