Downloads

This page features documents and stories that may be downloaded.

Stories

As I look back on my many years of travels, I want to take some time to write brief stories about places, events and experiences that I encountered. I will illustrate them with photos I have taken over the years. They will be in no particular order and will be downloadable in PDF format.

Some background. I graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1965. The only job I was interested in upon graduation was Peace Corps. By Christmas my senior year, I was invited to a teaching program in Sierra Leone with training in Chicago in the summer.

My assignment was to teach science at Kabala Secondary School in Kabala. Starting my second year, a new group of PCVs arrived and Gracie Scott was assigned to a primary school in Kabala. We hit it off and I extended for a third year. We left Sierra Leone in 1968, got married in August and started teaching jobs in Wyandanch NY.

After two years there, we wanted to go overseas again and found jobs teaching in the Truk district of Micronesia. We were assigned to a tiny island in the Lower Mortlocks named Satawan and taught there for two years.

The first item is an introduction to my involvement in and with Sierra Leone. It spans my Peace Corps years, 1965-68, my return in 2004 and comments on events in the years between.

Sierra Leone, an introduction

Kabala

Christmas Hike 1966, Sierra Leone

Hike December 1967, Sierra Leone

Hikes Around Kabala 1967

Kroo Bay – 2004

Trip to Bonthe 2004

Journey to Micronesia 1970

Satawan, Our New Home

Trips to Other Islands from Satawan

Pig to Pork: Food Preparation on Satawan

The Great Wall 1985

This article was submitted to the GLCC (Great Lakes Cruising Club) and won the founders award. It was published in their magazine.

Bayfield ‘Cross the Lake

This article was published in one of the very early issues of Good Old Boat

Vessel in the Fog

Ruth’s Diarys

This is a diary from 1951. It is far from complete. There are two trips, one with Gladys and Alwin the other the family trip to the Smokey Mountains.

Ruth Diary 1951

Leave a Reply