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Title: Ag Fair 2
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Teaching was an important element of the ag fair. Here J.T.A. Baidya Nath Jha describes and demonstrates the use of new farm implements.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0025
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2937
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Ag Fair 3
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: In addition to food grains (rice and wheat), several varieties of vegetables were exhibited. Vegetable seeds were available through local collection as well as from the Janakpur Agricultural Station and Kathmandu.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0026
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2938
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Ag Fair 4
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Here we see several entries of eggs. Other animal husbandry related exhibits included fish, hogs, rabbits, and cattle. The Pardan Panches (elected leaders) of the four involved panchayats (similar to townships and the lowest elected leadership position in Nepal) helped with the judging. Cash prizes were awarded.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0027
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2939
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Ag Fair I
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Here a Nepalese Agricultural Technician, Ram Chandra Sinha, who had temporarily joined our team, registers entries into several categories of competition. The Ag Fair was held in conjunction with the Megha Nath Mela (community celebration in Meghraul) and was attended by hundreds of people. There were 99 entries in 34 competitive classes, plus a few for display only.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0024
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2936
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Artesian Water
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Artesian water has made the Terai Nepal’s bread basket. The constant availability of water allows for growing wheat during the dry season. Here we see water bubbling out of a patch of sand on its own. These wet patches were not that common but by simply driving a pipe a few feet into the ground water would flow. It was always cool and clean and the runoff was captured in nearby pools which were great for fish cultivation.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0016
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2928
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Boys, Hill and Tharu
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: A Tharu (left) and Hill Brahman boy sit side by side as they watch the day’s activities at the Meghraul village pond. The Hill Brahman boy is lighter skinned, smaller, and is obviously a Brahman of more than eight years as evidenced by the janau (white cord) hanging over his shoulder.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0062
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2974
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Diary of a Peace Corps Volunteer
Date: [date of creation not identified]
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Memoir consisting of rewritten letters Ronald Rude sent home over his 3 years with Peace Corps, Nepal 17, between 1968 and 1971. It covers his relationship with Nepalese coworkers as well as other Peace Corps volunteers, frustrations, successes, cultural events experienced, a comparison of ceremonies as performed by Hill and Terai Brahmans of Nepal, and travel. The memoirs contain many photos, some taken at a location restricted to Brahman families negotiating the marriage of their children.
Subject: Volunteer workers in agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0001
Type: memoirs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2595
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: District Ag Office
Date: 1968
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This building was our District Ag Development Office as well as the home of our District Director. I assume he had a family, but they were not with him here. We traveled by bus to this office every few months to discuss agricultural projects. It looks shabby but was a sound brick building.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0018
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2930
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: District Director
Date: 1968
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This young man was our first District Agricultural director. Light skinned and small in stature with slight oriental features, we can tell his home is from the hills or mountainous area north of the Terai. His mother tongue was Nepali and he spoke good English. His job was to oversee agricultural advancements as directed by his superiors in the capital, Kathmandu.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0017
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2929
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fish Project 2
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: B.N. Jha holds up a prize Israeli carp harvested from the Megraul pond. Israeli carp grew very fast so fish this size could be harvested in a few months. They required no additional feeding and were a great new source of protein.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0020
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2932
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Fish Project I
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: My source of Israeli carp fingerlings was quite near me. An hour walk and a two hour train ride would bring me to Janakpur where the Nepalese government had developed a fisheries station. Here PCV Frank Daly and I are receiving our supply of fingerlings which we delivered to landlords who had ordered them. Small, muddy village ponds were fine for cultivating these fish. A plastic bag was placed in a mustard oil tin. Water and fingerlings were poured into the bag. The bag was tied shut with plenty of air left at the top. We took the tins by bicycle rickshaw to the train station. We rode the train to the train station closest to our village and with some luck rendezvoused with an oxcart to travel the rest of the distance. The fingerlings were then poured into their respective ponds.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0019
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2931
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Hauling Rice Straw
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This Tharu worker is transporting rice from the threshing floor by bell gari (ox cart). He has his lungi (skirt) bundled up around him. He has stopped in front of the landlord’s house. With its wooden second floor, it is quite fancy for the Terai.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0009
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2921
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Hill Brahman
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This gentleman, who happened to be the District Agricultural Director, originated from a Nepali-speaking home located somewhere in central Nepal, either the central Mahabharata mountains or southern Siwalik foothills. Like most Nepalese he is small in stature with slightly oriental features.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0060
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2972
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Hill Family
Date: 1970
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Here we see the patriarch of the Upadayaya family with his wife (left side) and two daughters-in-law. They moved south from their original home in the foothills (Siwaliks) and acquired land on the Terai (southern plain). They are Nepali speaking Brahmans. By 1968 Mr. Upadayaya had turned the farm over to his 24 year old son and concentrated solely on religious (Hindu) activities.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0061
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2973
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Hog Project
Date: 1971
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: In animal husbandry, raising hogs was by far the biggest challenge. They were considered a dirty animal and could be kept only by untouchables for the landlords who purchased them. Also, the piglets had to be brought from Biratnager, a day’s trip east by train. I had many interesting experiences transporting and working with hogs. While they were a temporary success, I doubt they had much of a permanent impact as I am sure fish and chickens did.
Subject: Agriculture
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0022
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2934
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Household Puja (Worship)
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: Brahman women of the Upadayaya household, dressed in their best clothes, serve flowers and food items, especially sweets to several Hindu gods on a holy day.
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0028
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2940
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Mary Ann McDonald Edelen’s letters from Nepal as a Peace Corps Volunteer, 1969-1970
Date: 1969/1970
Creator: Edelen, Mary Ann McDonald
Description: Transcribed correspondence written by Mary Ann McDonald Edelen from her Peace Corps service in Nepal, 1969-1970. Mary Ann volunteered after she retired from teaching 1969-1970. She wrote a letter to her family every week on an airmail letter.
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteers
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Edelen_0001
Type: correspondence
Collection: Peace Corps Community Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2988
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Memories and Meaning: A 50th Anniversary Report
Date: 2018-12
Creator: Ender, Gary
Description: This report documents the experiences of Peace Corps Volunteers in Nepal 17 and the impact of the Peace Corps in the volunteers’ lives after the Peace Corps. The report includes photographs and stories contributed by Peace Corps staff and volunteers who served in Nepal 17.
Subject: Volunteers -- Nepal
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Ender_0001
Type: memoirs
Collection: Peace Corps Community Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2592
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Mountain Family
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: This family lived north of Pokhara, Nepal, on the slopes of high Himalayas. Their features are more prominently oriental and their religion may be Buddhist. They speak Nepali. Note the homemade steps leading to the house roof. A stall was kept under the house for the family’s water buffalo. The manure smell was kept down by spreading pine boughs under the buffalo’s feet.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0064
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2976
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Mountain Girl
Date: 1969
Creator: Rude, Ronald
Description: A girl from north of Pokhara carries her little sibling. She is part of the family described in photo #9. Note that house construction has changed from mud covered bamboo lattice to stone. No male adult was present. The father most likely is working elsewhere and may even be out of the country.
Subject: People
Country: Nepal
Local Identifier: PCCA_Rude_0065
Type: photographs
Collection: Ronald Rude collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2977
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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