October 4, 2022 – Peace Corps Worldwide

How To Write Your Peace Corps Story

Oct 04 2022

What is Creative Non Fiction? & Writing Your Peace Corps Story by John Coyne (Ethiopia 1962-64) Lee Gutkind who started the first Creative Nonfiction program at the University of Pittsburgh writes simply that “creative nonfiction are “true stories well told.” In some ways, creative nonﬁction is like jazz — it’s a rich mix of ﬂavors, ideas, and techniques, some of which are newly invented and others as old as writing itself. Creative nonﬁction can be an essay, a journal article, a research paper, a memoir, or a poem; it can be personal or not, or it can be all of these. Creative nonfiction is also known as literary nonfiction or narrative nonfiction and is a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as academic or technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted . . .

Telling the Story of Princeton Alumni in the Peace Corps

Oct 04 2022

Randolph Hobler (Libya 1968-69) compendium of 440 alumni Peace Corps volunteers resides in the Mudd Library archives While Randolph Hobler (Princeton ’68) was working on his book, 101 Arabian Tales, about the experiences of 101 Peace Corps volunteers who served in Libya, it dawned on him that no such list exists of Princeton alumni. So he began researching. It took three years to complete, and now that list — plus a short Peace Corps film featuring Daniel Ritchie ’64’s service in Kenya — has found a home in the digital archives of the University’s Mudd Library (bit.ly/peace-corps-22). Hobler hopes the Princeton Peace Corps Compendium will be a chance for alumni to learn about the service of their fellow Princetonians. The approximately 250-page resource features 440 Tigers, from the classes of 1936 to 2021, who served in 97 countries. The list includes George Johnson ’59, the first alum to volunteer with the Peace . . .

Winner of the 2021 Peace Corps Writers Award for Best Travel Book

Oct 04 2022

RWANDA AND THE MOUNTAIN GORILLAS by Steve Kaffen (Russia) Rwanda is one of Africa’s smallest and most densely populated countries, and one of its most diverse. Nicknamed “Land of A Thousand Hills,” Rwanda is blanketed with rolling farmland that produces some of Africa’s best coffee and tea. Volcanoes National Park is home to mountain gorillas in the higher elevations and golden monkeys down below, while the Nyungwe National Park rainforest contains playful black-and-white colobus monkeys and sources of both the Nile and Congo Rivers. Close encounters with the gorillas and monkeys on treks led by park rangers are among Africa’s exhilarating wildlife experiences. Throughout the country are memorials to the victims of the genocide in spring 1994, during which up to a million residents, largely of the Tutsi ethnic group, were massacred by ethnic Hutu extremists. Offsetting the trauma that still exists is the resilience of Rwanda’s warm and . . .

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