Another photo from Paul Chantrey

Here is another photo sent by Paul Chantrey.  He writes, 

“This was our first house in Bo.  It was the home of Sir Milton Margi who was the Prime Minister.  In one of the attached outbuildings was a torn-down printing press on which Sir Milton printed an upcountry newspaper.  On the other side of the hill behind the house was where the Dumbar Field was located that was used for the visit of the Queen in 1961.  

“We had a number of interesting visitors to the house.  One was an American professor who was traveling from South Africa all the way through to North Africa, updating his book.   We also had an American student who was on his way the the University of Ghana.  He had an interesting encounter with alligator peppers in the jolaf rice.  There were cries of ‘Eat bread, no, no not water!’  Everyone in Bo knew this house had Peace Corps Volunteers living in it, so European and American visitors were frequently directed our way."

The Margai house

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An e-mail today on the Friends of Sierra Leone listserv mentioned the death from acute leukemia of a woman named Darleen Beals.  The note said that she and her husband Alan “were volunteers in Sierra Leone in the early 60's (62-64?). They were very active with Northern California Peace Corps Association activities.”  The names aren’t familiar to me, and they weren’t members of Sierra Leone II, certainly, but perhaps they were members of a group that overlapped with our service, so I thought I would pass the news on.  Perhaps some of you will have known them.     - Tony