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.
Christmas Hike 1966, Sierra Leone
Hike December 1967, Sierra Leone
Trips to Other Islands from Satawan
Pig to Pork: Food Preparation on Satawan
This article was submitted to the GLCC (Great Lakes Cruising Club) and won the founders award. It was published in their magazine.
This article was published in one of the very early issues of Good Old Boat
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.
