2011 Festival Blog - Peace Corps

Here are the top ten photos posted on Flickr from day seven of the Festival. Keep uploading those gorgeous imagesRead More

Here are the top ten photos posted on Flickr from day six of the Festival. Keep uploading those gorgeous imagesRead More

Here are the top ten photos posted on Flickr from day five of the Festival. Keep uploading those gorgeous imagesRead More

Congressman Sam Farr and journalist Maureen Orth sat on the Peace Porch yesterday, talking with Festival visitors and Peace CorpsRead More

Peace Corps Participant Assistant Meredith Adhikari accompanied the Peace Corps participants to a reception honoring their contributions to this year’sRead More

The Smithsonian Institution Archives, the record keeper of the history of the Smithsonian, features a blog in THE BIGGER PICTURE, inRead More

Borshch Soup (a traditional Ukrainian soup) Recipe by Shelia Slemp Stock: 2 ½ pounds of pork short ribs; pork bonesRead More

Hamadoun (Simbè) Sankaré wrote this poem and read it at a July 6 reception organized by the Peace Corps toRead More

Week 2 of the Festival! Photographs from Thursday, July 7, 2011 Click on images to enlarge and see captions.

African American Peace Corps volunteer Richard Campbell and Japanese American volunteer Shunpei Igushi talk about how they have experienced perceptionsRead More