Archive - April 30, 2023

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Review | GOATS: AND OTHER STORIES by Martin Ganzglass (Somalia)
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Diary of a Peace Corps Volunteer by Jack Maisano (Korea)

Review | GOATS: AND OTHER STORIES by Martin Ganzglass (Somalia)

  Goats: And Other Stories Martin R. Ganzglass (Somalia 1966–68) Peace Corps Writers 2021 305 pages $10.00 (paperback) Reviewed by Regina DeAngelo (Ghana 2000-2002) • At age 76, Allison Murphy has found herself widowed and living at a home for retired military personnel in a suburb near Washington. In addition to the usual nuisances of aging, Allie has recently taken a fall on a throw rug. This placed her square in the crosshairs of the administration, who are monitoring her from the newly installed security cameras, as well as through the eyes of the smiley guard at reception, in case she takes another tumble. Then there’s her nemesis, Sergeant Trottman, who’d like to see her and her attitude assigned to the Memory Ward. Amid the mini dramas of life in a retirement home, Allie’s own story unfolds. Fifty years ago, we learn, Allie was flying fighter planes: “nimble P-51s and . . .

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Diary of a Peace Corps Volunteer by Jack Maisano (Korea)

Diary of a Peace Corps Volunteer By Jack Maisano (Korea 1971-73) Self Published 239 pages May 2020 $8.88 (Kindle); $9.98 (Paperback)     It was a serendipitous day when I found my  diary from my Peace Corps days in Korea. I was in the Peace Corps from the end of 1971 to the end of 1973. Somehow my diary – an old, red, five-by-eight inch, lined book, filled with addresses, phone numbers, stamps, and poems – had followed me…for nearly 50 years. It was filled with two years of youthful prose describing my life as a Peace Corps volunteer in Korea and a few years beyond. And now here it was, sitting accusingly on my desk, practically daring me to record it in print. The first task was to read it, something I had never done before. With some trepidation, I started on page one…and the memories came flooding back. . . .

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