Archive - November 4, 2015

(Thanks to Janet Lee (Ethiopia 1974-76) for the ‘heads up’ on this new book about the Peace Corps.) How the 1960s Peace Corps’ gendered modernization ideology shaped social movements across the Americas In a provocative cultural history of the 1960s Peace Corps, Molly Geidel argues that the agency’s representative development ventures legitimated the violent exercise of American power around the world and the destruction of indigenous ways of life. Peace Corps Fantasies illuminates the normative force and gendered imperatives of U. S. endeavors to fortify liberal internationalism against anticolonial struggles for freedom. -Quote from Alyosh  Goldstein, University of New Mexico Description of the book on the back cover To tens of thousands of volunteers in its first decade, the Peace Corps was “the toughest job you’ll ever love.” In the United States’ popular imagination to this day, it is a symbol of selfless altruism and the most successful program of John . . .

PHOTOS OF FINCA VIGIA Side view of Finca Vigia and tower built by Hemingway; Adriana Ivancich, stayed here, his last love Hemingway had something like 90,000 books in his home Hemingway and Mary Welsh, his fourth wife Cafe in the parking lot below the house where today you can buy a famous Hemingway drink the famous drink! Have one on us, Ernie