Interview with Sally Spurr, January 27, 2006
Project: Peace Corps: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Kentucky) Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Sally Spurr (Ecuador, 1975-1973; Community Development Program and Agriculture Program) talks about her unique experience involving being turned down for Peace Corps after college and then traveling in Europe and South America for a year and becoming a field enrollee. She describes her job and life there in detail as well as her life since Peace Corps, including her service in Ecuador in community development and then a horticulture research program, and teaching English as a second language at Jefferson County Technical and Community College.Interview Accession
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Agriculture Community development Farming Peace Corps volunteers Community relations Quechua language Peace Corps programs Indigenous peoples--Ecuador Agricultural techniques Planting crops Interpersonal relations Developing relationships Quito (Ecuador) Cultural adjustments Small gardensInterview LC Subject
Ecuador Peace Corps (U.S.)--Ecuador Peace Corps (U.S.)--History Spurr, Sally Spurr, Sally--Interviews Peace Corps (U.S.)--History--1970-1979. Community development Agriculture Peace Corps (U.S.) Ambato (Ecuador) Travel. Teaching. Teachers. Horticulture. Research. Gardening World viewsInterview Rights
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Spurr, Sally Interview by Jack Wilson. 27 Jan. 2006. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Spurr, S. (2006, January 27). Interview by J. Wilson. Peace Corps: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Kentucky) Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Spurr, Sally, interview by Jack Wilson. January 27, 2006, Peace Corps: Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (Kentucky) Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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