Our heritage

Wednesday, January 22, 2014

A new Peace Corps volunteer asked me the other day what life was like here in 1966? My snap answer was that there was, not least no piped water and no electricity.

With a bit more thought it seemed that life here then was probably not so different to that in remoter parts of the USA.

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