Hello Korea

Hello y'all in chosun. I was once selected to give TB innoculations by the US Peace Corps there. The Stony Brook University recruiter had awards for singing folk songs with his acoustic guitar there on their TV. This was 25 years ago however, and things have certainly changed there. I hadn't really asked to go there, it was the job they had available, rather Africa then, well "back to square one" the guy said in Washington, D.C. which is what I've been doing working in archaeology squares! Since then the World Bank adjusted Korea's standing making Peace Corps a no go there as economics change. My uncle Vincent Urquhart served two tours there and my cousin George Murray was an Army Captain there before directing "Huntley and Brinkley" after his job in the Signal Corps got him into editing with NBC in NYC. He last covered 1976 conventions in the US for CBS. He died in Mexico City where his wife, an Avon executive was introducing their product there (door to door cosmetics sales? maybe) They had a eulogy at the United Nations Chapel, and TV journalist/author elder statesman of the media, Edwin Newman, read a letter my cousin had to write to his crew getting the "common soldiers view" of the Vietnam Conflict, cancelled after months by higher ups. I missed it, last I saw him was a wedding in the Bronx with a reception in New Jersey, flooded at the time in Hackensack. I hope you enjoy it there a nice opportunity I might think to understand where, some archaeologists and archaeology seems to show the origin of the amazing Chinese culture and history actually started from. Once a Seal Cove resident, my family comes from "up the island" in Castalia, that is where some of my great-grandparents are buried and my grandfather was born. The captain of the "S.S. City of Atlanta," his brother, and Master Mariner, Leman Chapman Urquhart, was also born there. It was one of the first commercial ships sunk in January 1942 by U-123, ("right after" Pearl Harbor) with a loss of 43 (42) lives and two (3) survivors, he not one. It was travelling from NYC to Savannah, Georgia, as the big sidewheeler, built in 1903, usually did. His name is on the base of the flagpole between the two Eccles brass cannons in North Head at the church overlooking the North Head harbor on Grand Manan Island, in the province of New Brunswick, in Canada.