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October 1, 2010 at 10:57 am
Doug Larson quote
October 1, 2010 at 4:18 pm
I still say those colours don’t work. And the patterns … random tie-dying … no wonder the hippies turned to drugs.
Cheers
October 1, 2010 at 11:38 pm
Minicapt,
Those are Ghanaian cloths, and yes, Bill, is wearing tie-dye. It was common to Africa, had been for a long, long while.
October 1, 2010 at 4:44 pm
“little bobby loved his two mommy’s, it was the strange moustache on the daddy that confused him.”
October 1, 2010 at 11:39 pm
splendid,
Little Kevin loved his dad Bill, his mother Peg, on the left, and his aunt Kat, on the right.
October 2, 2010 at 5:41 am
What long fingers you have, my dear.
October 2, 2010 at 9:19 am
Cuidado,
That is really weird as I don’t have fingers that long, and I never even noticed the fingers here. This picture came from friends. I have a similar one in the house somewhere. I’ll have to hunt it down and see if my fingers look weird in that one too.
October 2, 2010 at 12:06 pm
I think it’s because parts of the photo are elongated.
October 2, 2010 at 1:17 pm
Bill’s right . . . something happened to the print in the developer. There’s a band of distortion/elongation beginning about halfway down, extending to three-quarters. And that’s why you have odd-looking fingers there.
October 2, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Cheers
October 2, 2010 at 8:38 am
i knew that was you,
i was pulling a “richard”: smartaleck cooment!!!!
photographs from long ago
take us right back to that moment
yet seem light years away from where we are now
as always: thank you so much for sharing yourself
xoxoxoxoxx
October 2, 2010 at 9:21 am
splendid,
Yup. that would have been a Richard comment. Wish I knew what happened to him.
October 2, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Bill and Marchbanks,
I should have noticed the one long side of the shirt. Thanks for pointing it out.
That photo was taken in Lome, Togo in 1971.
October 2, 2010 at 5:23 pm
Minicapt,
I’m laughing-that was great!
October 3, 2010 at 9:13 am
Bill and Peg. Were they in our group? Taken in ’71 in Togo? They don’t ring a bell….
October 3, 2010 at 10:25 am
Ralph,
They are Bill and Peg Sandford, and they were in our group. Originally they were supposed to be posted to the north, but they found out Peg was pregnant. Because Whit Foster’s wife was pregnant and they could stay, the powers that be decided it wouldn’t be fair to send volunteers home so they stayed. Bill and Peg were posted to New Tafo so they’d be closer to Accra.
After Kevin was born, they relocated to Bolga for their second and third years. During their third year, they had a second baby, a girl.
If you look at the DVD Tim put together, there is a slide labeled Coffee at Legon. Bill and Peg are the last two on the right.
October 3, 2010 at 10:28 am
Oh THAT’s the Sandfords! He actually contacted me via the Peace Corps Worldwide site to say hello, having also found you via Coffee. I had to admit to him that I didn’t remember him and was flattered that he did me. They still look like total strangers to me, sorry to say….
October 3, 2010 at 10:51 am
Ralph,
They knew you were a friend of mine, and that I used to visit you in Kumasi. Their house was on the way to you from Accra, and I’d stop in to see them and generally would mention I was also dropping in to visit my friend Ralph.
I also met them in Philadelphia. We toured the city together.