In Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers, Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson tell the compelling and inspiring tale of how Kentuckians were called to serve in the Peace Corps, and, in turn, how that experience changed their lives and contributed to Kentucky and the rest of the country. These collected oral histories from Peace Corps veterans span over fifty years and include volunteers’ adventures in countries from Guatemala to Afghanistan to Gabon. The Wilsons follow the experiences of volunteers as they make the decision to join, attend training, adjust to living overseas and the job, make friends, and eventually return home to serve in their communities. In telling these stories, Voices from the Peace Corps demonstrates how volunteers’ time in the Peace Corps is the singular experience of a lifetime.

Angene Wilson is professor emeritus of education at the University of Kentucky, where she was chair of the secondary social studies program from 1975 to 2004. She is the author of The Meaning of International Experience for Schools and coauthor of Social Studies and the World: Teaching Global Perspectives. Jack Wilson spent more than thirty-five years in public service, beginning as a Peace Corps administrator in Sierra Leone, Washington, DC, and Fiji, and continuing as an administrator of environmental protection programs in Ohio and Kentucky. The Wilsons live in Lexington, Kentucky.

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