Dear Folks, I'm still going through the notes and transcriptions I made and came up with a description of snapshots I had taken. I had sent the photos to my Housman aunts and uncles and family. Of course I can't send you the pictures but maybe you can get a glimpse of my experience of 1972. 1. Paramibo, capital of Suriname, street scene on my way to the market place. Saw a number of food vendors such as the one in the picture selling "Warme Worst." Surinam hot dogs?? 2. Continuing to market. Uniformed man is a policeman. The woman is carrying her laundry the easy way--on her head. Notice the cars driving on the left side of the street. Suriname is the only country in South America that still drives like the British. No one seems to know how they got started in the first place. 3. Two Hindu women buying a lace shawl from vendor. There are vendors all along the street selling everything imaginable (but mostly incomprehensible!) I didn't have the foggiest idea what they were selling most of the time! 4. Me and a little Creole girl in front of the statue of the slave, Kwakoe--decorated for Emancipation Day (Freedom Day). A Creole woman and her daughter were passing by and a woman employee from my hotel took the picture of me and the daughter. The woman asked her (the Creole) if I could have my picture taken in her anjesa (headdress) and so I borrowed her daughter, too! It must have looked so strange that a Japanese tourist walking by took our picture too! 5. The "fairgrounds" called ABO's on Emancipation day. The style of dress ranged from the large woman in the red "Kettikottie" dress to the younger one in the purple hot pants and white boots. Note, however, both of them are wearing the anjesa. 6. Watching everyone dancing at ABO's. The music had a strong South American beat but was typically Suriname. Notice the women dancing together. They were really enjoying themselves! I believe there were more older people dancing than there were the younger ones. 7. Getting into our boat on the Marowijne River starting out on our river safari. The young man is Alan who was with his wife Karen. They were Canadians. The Bush Negro is Viano ("Fiano.") It was his tourist service--see side of boat. The girl on the right in the red skirt and white blouse is Jytte "Yuta," the Danish tour guide. 8. Jama ("Yama") and Landoe ("Landew), the young boys that helped with the boat. Jama is helping steer the boat through very shallow water by using the long pole. We were approaching some wild water. 9. The rapids were getting rather nasty. 10. We're right in the middle of "Men Scream" rapids. We were soaked to the skin by the time we were through them. 11. We had to stop to lighten the boat so that Viano could get it through the rest of the rapids. We were on an island and the two boys were helping. Landoe who was about seven years old, preferred to play. He's the one up in the tree. 12. Me and my buddy Landoe--he also loved to have his picture taken!--it was practically impossible to take one without him in it! I guess I better cut this short and continue tomorrow. The picture descriptions total 20. vee