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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Afghanistan: Husband and Wife team, Alex Klaits and Gulchin Gulmamadova-Klaits, will read from and share stories about their new release Love and War in Afghanistan 1 June 2005
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Afghanistan: Ron Milos publishes first novel - "The Kush" It is part science fiction and is based in part on Peace Corps years (69 -70) in Afghanistan 20 October 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Afghanistan: Afghanistan RPCV Nina Davidson Arnold publishes Journal while fighting Ovarian Cancer 8 January 2004
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Afghanistan: Letters from Afghanistan by RPCV Eloise Hanner 20 August 2003
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Afghanistan: The Journey of Ibn Battuta, 1325-1354 by Afghanistan RPCV Jim Rumford 5 October 2001
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Afghanistan: RPCV Jim Rumford writes historical novel about Afghanistan 20 September 2001
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Bangladesh: The Coyne Column: Peter McDonough writes "Why do you study Jesuits?" 10 April 2005
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Barbados: Barbados RPCV Bob Shacochis: Our Man in Haiti 6 April 2003
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Barbados: An interview with writer and journalist, Bob Shacochis, Barbados RPCV 7 July 2001
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Barbados: Barbados RPCV Bob Shacochis - "I went there, underage, to go surfing. Against the wishes of my parents. The Peace Corps was a scheme to get back [at them]. I got off the plane in Barbados with my surfboard and everybody laughed...Peace Corps volunteers are like sailors—they read like crazy. You're often alone. So you read books." 7 July 2001
Tags: Headlines: July, 2001; Peace Corps Barbados; Directory of Barbados RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Barbados RPCVs; Humor; Writing - Barbados

2001: Peace Corps Writing: Barbados: When Bob Shacochis was a Peace Corps volunteer, he served as an agricultural journalist in the Caribbean, the backdrop for his American Book Award-winning short story collection, "Easy in the Islands." 7 July 2001
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Barbados: Barbados RPCV Bob Shacochis rants on the importance of living abroad 7 July 2001
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2000: Peace Corps Writing: Barbaros: Review of Barbados RPCV Bob Shacochis' "The Immaculate Invasion" 1 October 2000
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Belize: A Life of Blessings Bloomed Belize RPCV Katy Perry 23 November 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Benin: Monique Maria Schmidt chronicles her two years as a young Peace Corps volunteer in a village in Benin 17 August 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Benin: Monique Maria Schmidt writes "Last Moon Dancing," which chronicles her two years teaching English in the African country of Benin 17 July 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Benin: Benin RPCV Jennifer Read Hawthorne writes "The Soul of Success" 8 May 2005
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2007: Peace Corps Writing: Bolivia: Bolivia RPCV Rafaela's G. Castro writes "Provocaciónes: Letters From the Prettiest Girl in Arvin" 8 February 2007
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Lauri Kubuitsile who came to Botswana to serve as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in Mahalapye from 1989 to 1991 wrote Lack Payout 18 November 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Bessie Head writes about the Peace Corps and other volunteers who come to Serowe - these and refugees from South Africa are vividly represented in her letters 7 August 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Botswana RPCV Sandra Meek, author of "Nomadic Foundations" and "Burn," to speak at Colorado State University 2 February 2005
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Peace Corps Volunteer's Letters Home from Botswana Basis Of Book 16 June 2004
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Letters from Botswana: A Peace Corps Odyssey By Dawn Khalil 29 December 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Dont waste your time on Mating, this is the book to read 15 August 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Peace Corps Botswana Norman Rush's new novel 18 June 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Peace Corps Botswana Norman Rush's thrilling new novel well worth the wait 16 June 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Botswana Country Director Norman Rush's 'Mortals' lives up to the promise of 'Mating' 8 June 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Interview with Botswana Peace Corps Country Director Norman Rush, Author of "Mating" 8 June 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: RPCV Norman Rush has new novel on Botswana 1 June 2003
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Botswana Country Director Norman Rush is in no big hurry 29 June 2001
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Norman Rush was co-director of the Peace Corps in Botswana from 1978 to 1983 and wrote "Whites" 27 June 2001
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: RPCVs review "Whites" by Peace Corps/ Botswana Co-Director Norman Rush 27 June 2001
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Botswana: Changing the world one life at a time by Botswana RPCV Dana Hinders 27 June 2001
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Brazil: Brazil RPCV George Van Antwerp writes memoirs 28 July 2003
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Brazil: Jim Stallings, Short Story Writer - served in the Peace Corps in Brazil 23 June 2001
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Brazil: Actor Peter Lownds, friend of Jack Kerouac, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in northeastern Brazil in the mid-sixties 23 June 2001
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1993: Peace Corps Writing: Brazil: Brazil RPCV Nancy Scheper-Hughes writes "Death without Weeping" 1 September 1993
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Burkina Faso: In 1966, Eli H. Newberger and Carolyn left for Ouagadougou, Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso), with our five-week-old daughter. 26 May 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Burkina Faso: Treating this Heavy Midlife of Men by Burkina Faso RPCV Eli H. Newberger, M.D. 26 May 2003
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: Cameroon: Cameroon RPCV Joyce Lombardi writes: Yamba 22 April 2006
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Cameroon: Cameroon RPCV Mary-Ann Tirone Smith writes books about evil. About evil people. Horrific events. About people who do the unspeakable and then have the temerity to speak about it. 30 November 2004
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Cameroon: Ten days after she graduated from CCSU, Smith entered the Peace Corps, unaware, perhaps, that she would be further enriching her stock of stories 26 May 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Cameroon: How Life in an African Village Let Me Be In My Skin by Cameroon RPCV Susana Herrera 26 May 2003
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1999: Peace Corps Writing: Cameroon: Mango Elephants in the Sun by Cameroon RPCV Susana Herrera 17 June 1999
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1986: Peace Corps Writing: Cameroon: Peace Corps Journal, 1986-88: Letters from Cameroon 14 October 1986
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Central African Repaublic: State of Decay by Central African Republic RPCV Robert Gribbin 15 June 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Central African Republic: Central African Republic RPCV Mark Sullivan writes "The Serpent's Kiss" 19 July 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Central African Republic: After years of covering stories, Central African Republic RPCV Mark Sullivan Mark Sullivan creates them 19 July 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Central African Republic: Central African Republic RPCV Mark Sullivan pens gripping mystery-thriller 16 July 2003
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Chile: Chile RPCV Tom Hazuka will receive writer's award 27 January 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Chile: Chile RPCV Tom Hazuka is the author of three novels 9 January 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Chile: Chile RPCV Tom Hazuka is Professor of English at CCSU 9 January 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Chile: Chile RPCV Tom Hazuka edited Flash Fiction 9 January 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Chile: RPCV Tom Hazuka takes an earnest and sometimes compelling look at life in Chile shortly after Pinochet's ascension to power, through the eyes of a 22-year-old American Peace Corps volunteer who comes to Santiago in 1978 9 January 2005
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Chile: A Peace Corps Profile of a Volunteer in Nicaragua and Chile 13 April 2003
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Chile: Waiting for the Snow : The Peace Corps Papers of a Charter Volunteer 3 July 2001
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Chile: Waiting for the Snow : The Peace Corps Papers of Charter Volunteer Thomas Scanlon 3 July 2001
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1998: Peace Corps Writing: Chile: Chile RPCV Tom Hazuka edited Flash Fiction, an anthology of extremely short stories 1 January 1998
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: China: Crawford Kilian reviews Peter Hessler's Oracle Bones 12 December 2006
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: China: Peter Hessler's Oracle Bones among National Book Awards Finalists 11 October 2006
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: China: In his new book, "Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present," Peter Hessler tells the story of the migrant workers who are part of the driving force behind China's economic rise 4 August 2006
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: China: Peter Hessler's pieces paint portrait of China today 25 June 2006
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: China: Peter Hessler's second book on China, Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present, is both timely and necessary 9 June 2006
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: China: When Peter Hessler published his first book, "River Town," five years ago, he became the best-known chronicler of mysterious China for a curious but mostly ignorant American audience 4 June 2006
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: China: RPCV Peter Hessler says: China's fast-changing economy has displaced millions of people, sparking a huge migration from farms and small towns to big cities, and from failing, state-owned enterprises into private businesses 20 May 2006
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: China: Events in China, says Peter Hessler, are like splashes of foam on the surface of a great sea change 18 May 2006
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: China: David Lynch writes: Those who seek to understand the real China - rather than the cartoonish threat - would do well to pick up China RPCV Peter Hessler's Oracle Bones 28 April 2006
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: China: In his new book on China, Peter Hessler embraces past and present through the voices of ordinary, extraordinary people 22 April 2006
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: China: Peter Hessler found a position through the Peace Corps — referred to as "Friendship Hands" because the Chinese government loaded "Peace Corps" with a rash of anti-American pejorative 17 March 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: China: There are parallels with the career of Peter Hessler, another American author who has brought China to life in an autobiography. 21 January 2005
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: China: A sense of the painful and conflicted aspects of becoming recognizable to others in a new language also characterizes American author Peter Hessler's memoir River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze 1 January 2005
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: China: An Interview with China RPCV Peter Hessler 7 December 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: China: Hickman alumnus Peter Hessler visits from China 27 October 2004
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: China: Talking with Peter Hessler 16 February 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: China: Reviews of Peter Hesler's River Town 16 February 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: China: China RPCV Peter Hessler writes about Tibet through Chinese Eyes 16 February 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: China: Excerpt from River Town. Peter Hessler's memoir of his Peace Corps service in China 16 February 2003
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2002: Peace Corps Writing: China: Peter Hessler to read in Washington DC on Janauary 15 3 January 2002
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: Colombia RPCV Grif Stockley to speak on book about Daisy Bates 15 February 2006
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: 'Deliberate Love' by Colombia RPCV Jim Roberts intends to show road to harmony 13 February 2005
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: Over the past 12 years, the distinguished Vanity Fair reporter, Maureen Orth, has become Sherlock Holmes to Michael Jackson's Moriarty 11 July 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: "If you become an accidental celebrity, take a loan and strap yourself in," writes author Maureen Orth 14 June 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: Colombia RPCV Maureen Orth writes "The Importance of being Famous" 6 June 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: New books by Tim Russert and Colombia RPCV Maureen Orth could not be more different 5 June 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: Colombia RPCV and Vanity Fair reporter Maureen Orth advises J-school students to do the ‘hard, hard work’ of reporting 5 May 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: Colombia RPCV Maureen Orth's early experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Medellin, Colombia, prepared me to fit in at any level as a journalist 4 May 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: My early experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Medellin, Colombia, prepared me to fit in at any level says Colombia RPCV Maureen Orth 3 May 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: An Interview with Colombia RPCV Maureen Orth on her new book 'The Importance of Being Famous' 2 May 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: Colombia RPCV Maureen Orth, star of Vanity Fair is author of "The Importance of Being Famous,'' a collection of pieces for that magazine and essays on fame. 30 April 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: Leah Garchik had lunch Wednesday with Maureen Orth, UC Berkeley grad, Peace Corps veteran, star of Vanity Fair and most recently, author of "The Importance of Being Famous,'' a collection of pieces for that magazine and essays on fame 30 April 2004
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: Colombia RPCV Craig Carrozzi's South American Adventure Travel Trilogy 29 December 2003
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2002: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: Colombia RPCV Journalist Maureen Orth, Vanity Fair magazine, discusses the murders at Fort Bragg Army Base in North Carolina 4 November 2002
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Colombia: “The Peace Corps has sent more than 160,000 Americans to serve as volunteers overseas during the past 40 years; this translates into more than 300,000 years of volunteer service around the globe,” says Colombia RPCV Maureen Orth 8 June 2001
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Congo Kinshasa: It was 1975 and Zaire had just started its long descent into economic decline when John Jochum arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer 24 January 2004
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Congo Kinshasa: Congo Kinshasa RPCV Mike Tidwell says Emphasis on abstinence imperils gains in African AIDS fight 20 July 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Congo Kinshasa: Congo Kinshasa RPCV Mike Tidwell's new book on Cajun Coast promotes Environmental Activism 16 June 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Congo Kinshasa: Congo Kinshasa RPCV Mike Tidwell's new book on Cajun Coast promotes Environmental Activism 16 June 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Congo Kinshasa: Writer Nicholas Hershenow was a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire (Congo) in the 1980s - When we were in the Peace Corps in Zaire (Congo), my wife and I lived in a village that was built around a decaying, but still operating, palm oil mill. 18 April 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Congo Kinshasa: In 1973 Bill Weber and Amy Vedder were Peace Corps volunteers in eastern Congo, with much more to learn before we could make any meaningful contribution to conservation. 18 April 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Congo Kinshasa: The Road Building by Zaire RPCV Nicholas Hershenow 18 April 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Congo Kinshasa: The Ponds of Kalambayi: An African Sojourn by Zaire RPCV Mike Tidwell 18 April 2003
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2002: Peace Corps Writing: Congo Kinshasa: Former peace corps volunteer Mike Tidwell visits Congo Kinshasa 18 April 2002
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2001: Peace Corps Writing: Congo Kinshasa: Voices from the Field: Using Peace Corps Literature like Mike Tidwell's Account of Zaire 12 August 2001
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2006: Peace Corps Writing: Costa Rica: Costa Rica RPCV Jack Rosenblum writes: "The 5 Secrets of Marriage from the HEART" 25 August 2006
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2005: Peace Corps Writing: Costa Rica: Costa Rica RPCV Gwyn Hyman Rubio draws on past to write 'Woodsman's Daughter' 20 August 2005
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Costa Rica: In 1974 at age 48 while Abe Peña was serving in Costa Rica with the Peace Corps his left leg started to go numb 30 June 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Costa Rica: Excerpts from Costa Rica RPCV Abe Peña's "Memories of Cibola" 30 June 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Costa Rica: In his new book Memories of Cibola: Stories from New Mexico Villages, Costa Rica RPCV Abe Pena, '49, writes about the people of San Mateo and other nearby places from the 1920s to 1950s 30 June 2004
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2000: Peace Corps Writing: Costa Rica: Abelicio "Abe" Peña is the former director of Peace Corps operations in Honduras and Costa Rica 14 October 2000
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2000: Peace Corps Writing: Costa Rica: Costa Rica RPCV Abe Pena, now in his early 70s and living in Grants with his wife, Viola, and a 24-year-old parrot named Paco, was once part of that life in San Mateo. He was born and raised there, spending his boyhood caring for his family's herd of sheep. 24 March 2000
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Czech Republic: Czech Republic RPCV Michael Luick-Thrams tells story of the horrors of being a prisoner of war 12 May 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Czech Republic: Czech Republic RPCV Michael Luick-Thrams' traveling 'bus-eum' tells of life 30 April 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Czech Republic: Czech Republic RPCV Michael Luick-Thrams' Bus-eum impresses Kalona residents 14 April 2004
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Czech Republic: Czech Republic RPCV Michael Luick-Thrams creates "Behind Barbed Wire", a traveling exhibit, housed in a converted school bus to explore the experiences of Iowa prisoners of war (POWs) 8 April 2004
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Czech Republic: Critique of Presentation by Czech Republic RPCV Michael Luick-Thrams 18 November 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Czech Republic: Czech Republic RPCV Michael Luick-Thrams wins 2003 Outstanding Project in the Public Humanities Award from Humanities Iowa 1 January 2003
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2004: Peace Corps Writing: Dominica: Last year, Grisham writer-in-residence Shay Youngblood, who had been a Peace Corps volunteer on the island in the Caribbean in the early 1980s, rekindled my interest in Dominica 13 January 2004
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Dominica: Soul Kiss by Dominica RPCV Shay Youngblood 8 June 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Dominica: Dominica RPCV Shay Youngblood 8 June 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Dominica: Interview with Dominica RPCV Shay Youngblood 8 June 2003
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2003: Peace Corps Writing: Dominica: