2009.07.20: July 20, 2009: Headlines: COS - Marshall Islands: Yokwe: Keola Downing has dedicated most of his adult life to helping preserve and protect the culture and people of the Marshall Islands
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2009.07.20: July 20, 2009: Headlines: COS - Marshall Islands: Yokwe: Keola Downing has dedicated most of his adult life to helping preserve and protect the culture and people of the Marshall Islands
Keola Downing has dedicated most of his adult life to helping preserve and protect the culture and people of the Marshall Islands
Certain times of the year in the Marshall Islands, Keola Downing remembers walking out into a still lagoon at night, when the temperature of both the air and the water were exactly the same, and not being able to tell where the water ended and the stars began.
Keola Downing has dedicated most of his adult life to helping preserve and protect the culture and people of the Marshall Islands
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Certain times of the year in the Marshall Islands, Keola Downing remembers walking out into a still lagoon at night, when the temperature of both the air and the water were exactly the same, and not being able to tell where the water ended and the stars began.The 60-year-old Big Island man has dedicated most of his adult life to helping preserve and protect the culture and people of the Marshall Islands, especially those living in Hawai'i. His love affair with the islands began when he was a young man, just out of college, and ready to see the world.He signed up for the Peace Corps in 1969, and was off to a remote atoll in the South Pacific. His duty was to teachEnglish as a second language, but he soon found that he had mastered the Marshallese language so well, residents there considered him a native speaker. He also worked as an agricultural specialist, because he wanted to help the islanders in every way possible.
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