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19 days! And things are going smoothly with a couple of surprises. Karl, my replacement has arrived on the island. Young and inexperienced he has a lot of anxiety about being able to do the work. In fact he reminds me of myself as I faced setting up the M.I.U ...

Or are they… seems like the Peace Corps experience is a magnet for ambiguity and with this thing finally winding up the ambiguities have paradoxically multiplied. Hugh, Mike and I kicked around this idea of a short-term contract and Mike acted very interested ...

So, it's been an amazing 41 years and two months since our C.O.S. (Close Of Service).  Our last few weeks in St. Vincent are blurry now (thankful I recorded the other events). The journal entries ended abruptly and we exited St. Vincent tearful but hopeful for...

I use a bunch of terms in the journal that meant something at the time, some of which I have forgotten.  The Peace Corps had it's own set of acronyms and abbreviations.  Here are some of them, in no particular order: PT - Physical Therapist which became Physi...

We took a couple of hundred slides when we were in St. Vincent and I took a few prints as well.  The slides have been tranferred to a digital image (not great, some of them) but they give you a flavour of what life in St. Vincent was like. (They are in no part...

Artwork on the newsletter provided by Debbie.  We'd send the newsletter to my folks in SLC and then they sent out the newsletters to our mailing list. Unfortunately these are the only originals that my folks saved.  Some were lost. This is LONG before email wa...