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Title: Appointment in Togo: Murder in the Fulbright Program
Creator: Yaco, Rosemary
Publisher: Anlex Computer Consulting LLC
Description: Lynne Lewis is appointed Fulbright Professor at the University of Togo. Almost immediately, she finds evidence of a bloody murder on the run-down campus. There is increasing instability as the country tries to gain democracy and depose the long term dictator. Lynne helps the US State Department sort through the eccentric group of Americans at the university and several Africans to solve the violent deaths of two colleagues.
Series: Lynne Lewis: West Africa Murder Mysteries
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries -- Fiction; Murder -- Investigation -- Africa -- Fiction; Murder mysteries; Political violence -- Fiction; Suspense fiction; Togo -- Fiction
Country: Togo
Local Identifier: PCCA_Yaco_mysteries_0002
Type: fiction
Collection: Rosemary Yaco collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3183
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Barbara Wallace, Peace Corps Korea 1975-1977 slideshow
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Wallace, Barbara
Description: Barbara Wallace served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Korea from 1975-1977. The video slideshow depicts her life in the Peace Corps.
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteers
Country: South Korea
Local Identifier: PCCA_Wallace_0001
Type: streaming video
Collection: Peace Corps Community Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2983
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Celebrating Penny's brother's visit with a goat feast
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: This is my brother Peter when he can came to visit and we slaughtered a goat in his honor and cooked it in the yard.
Subject: Volunteers; Americans -- Foreign countries
Country: Niger
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0685
Type: color photographs
Collection: Penny Jessop collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3116
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Cotonou Means Death: Murder at the American Cultural Center
Creator: Yaco, Rosemary
Publisher: Anlex Computer Consulting LLC
Description: When Lynne Lewis left Togo during violent political unrest, she hoped for a safer life in Benin. But danger erupts as soon as she crosses the border. A threatening encounter at the checkpoint turns deadly as a man is shot in a confusing gun battle. Lynne arrives in Cotonou for her new job at the American Cultural Center and works to establish an English Language Program while helping Inspector McDuff find the surprising malignant force behind the violence in the American community of Benin.
Series: Lynne Lewis: West Africa Murder Mysteries
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries -- Fiction; Benin -- Fiction; Murder -- Investigation -- Africa -- Fiction; Political violence -- Fiction; Suspense fiction
Country: Togo
Local Identifier: PCCA_Yaco_mysteries_0003
Type: fiction
Collection: Rosemary Yaco collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3184
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Director of public health leads training session
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: That’s Mamadou Issa at our training session.
Subject: Volunteers; Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteer workers in community health services
Country: Niger
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0670
Type: color photographs
Collection: Penny Jessop collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3110
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Documents and photographs from Paul Robert Willey's Peace Corps service in Colombia, 1962-1964
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Willey, Paul Robert
Description: Paul Robert Willey served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Colombia from 1962-1964. Willey worked as an education volunteer, teaching physical education.
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Physical education and training; Volunteers
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Willey_0001
Type: memoirs
Collection: Friends of Colombia Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2990
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Excerpt from "Georgie Girl" published in Today's Black Woman
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Burnett, Joyce
Publisher: Today's Black Woman
Subject: African Americans; Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteers
Country: Mauritania
Local Identifier: PCCA_Burnett_0001
Type: articles
Collection: Peace Corps Community Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2987
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Friends of Colombia celebrates 60th anniversary of Peace Corps Colombia
Date: 2021-06-25
Description: June 25, 2021 marked the 60th anniversary of the first Peace Corps group to begin their pre-service training, our very own Colombia I. To celebrate this anniversary, FOC will hosted a panel discussion exploring the history of Peace Corps, Peace Corps Colombia's plans for the future, and how the pandemic and national protests have impacted nuestra querida Colombia. Featured speakers include: Tom Mullins - Member of the first Peace Corps Colombia Alana DeJoseph - Film Director, A Towering Task Matthew Carlson - Country Director, Peace Corps Colombia Daniel Avila-Camacho - Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Colombia in the US
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Volunteers
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_0001
Type: streaming video
Collection: Friends of Colombia Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2984
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: La Norteamericana by Alfredo Gutiérrez
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Gutiérrez, Alfredo; Boyles, Cathie Maclin
Description: Read about the inspiration for La Norteamericana
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries; Vallenato (Music); Volunteers
Country: Colombia
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Boyles_0001
Type: songs (performances)
Collection: Friends of Colombia Archive
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:2985
mods_typeOfResource_mt: sound recording-music

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: Murder at a Small Embassy: Evil in Benin
Creator: Yaco, Rosemary
Publisher: Anlex Computer Consulting LLC
Description: Lynne Lewis has married her long-time lover, Everett, the Economic officer at the State Department in Benin. However, the joy of her recent marriage is darkened by the murders of three Americans. The crimes seem somehow related to voodoo witchcraft in the Embassy itself. Then gorgeous Daphne, a State Department consultant, appears. Soon murderous rivalries, sexual and political, are revealed. Lynne realizes she is in personal danger until the killer is found. Oddly, her fascination with Africa’s beautiful fabrics helps her solve the mysteries.
Series: Lynne Lewis: West Africa Murder Mysteries
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries -- Fiction; Benin -- Fiction; Murder -- Investigation -- Africa -- Fiction; Murder mysteries; Political violence -- Fiction; Suspense fiction
Country: Benin
Local Identifier: PCCA_Yaco_mysteries_0004
Type: fiction
Collection: Rosemary Yaco collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3185
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Murder in the Peace Corps
Creator: Yaco, Rosemary
Publisher: Anlex Computer Consulting LLC
Description: Lynne Lewis, in the Peace Corps, is stationed in the far north of Togo. Four violent deaths of Americans occur. In a period of near revolution, in a country with twenty languages and a strong belief in voodoo, Lynne uses her knowledge of the volunteers and her growing understanding of West Africa to help Inspector McDuff, a temporary State Department official, to discover the murderer.
Series: Lynne Lewis: West Africa Murder Mysteries
Subject: Americans -- Foreign countries -- Fiction; Murder -- Investigation -- Africa -- Fiction; Murder mysteries; Peace Corps (U.S.); Suspense fiction; Togo -- Fiction
Country: Togo
Local Identifier: PCCA_Yaco_mysteries_0001
Type: fiction
Collection: Rosemary Yaco collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3182
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: National zoo visit
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: That’s my brother Peter when he came to visit and I think we are at the national zoo.
Subject: Zoo animals; Americans -- Foreign countries
Country: Niger
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0663
Type: color photographs
Collection: Penny Jessop collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3109
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Peace Corp Volunteer Marian Hassell, assigned to Senegal
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: Marian Hassell, another one of the volunteers who went to Senegal.
Subject: Volunteers; Americans -- Foreign countries
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0299
Type: color photographs
Collection: Penny Jessop collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3088
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Peace Corp Volunteer Robert Carvuto
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: Robert Carvuto went to the national arts center in Ouagadougou.
Subject: Volunteers; Americans -- Foreign countries
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0307
Type: color photographs
Collection: Penny Jessop collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3091
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Peace Corp Volunteers
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: Alfred, Marian, and Jules with a friend.
Subject: Volunteers; Americans -- Foreign countries
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0309
Type: color photographs
Collection: Penny Jessop collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3092
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Peace Corp Volunteers Alfred Mock and Marian Hassell.
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: Alfred Mock and Marian Hassell. Alfred went to the national art center in Ouagadougou.
Subject: Volunteers; Americans -- Foreign countries
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0300
Type: color photographs
Collection: Penny Jessop collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3089
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Peace Corp Volunteers Alfred Mock, Marian Hassell, and Julie Wise
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: Alfred, Marian, and Julie Wise. She was posted to Diffa in eastern Niger on Lake Chad.
Subject: Volunteers; Americans -- Foreign countries
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0305
Type: color photographs
Collection: Penny Jessop collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3090
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Peace Corp Volunteers Jules Marquart and Tom Makle on a boat traveling from Saint Thomas to Saint John and Sain Croix
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: These were two of the volunteers that we became very close with: Jules Marquart (Senegal) and Tom Makle (Chad). We were taking the boat from Saint Thomas over to Saint John and Saint Croix.
Subject: Volunteers; Americans -- Foreign countries
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0298
Type: color photographs
Collection: Penny Jessop collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3087
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Penny Jessop eating lunch with another volunteer under a tree
Date: 1970-1973
Creator: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Description: Lunch with volunteers was often outside under a tree.
Subject: Volunteers; Americans -- Foreign countries
Country: Niger
Subject -- Personal Name: Jessop, Penny Patricia
Local Identifier: PCCA_Jessop_0108
Type: color photographs
Collection: Penny Jessop collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3065
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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