Margarita: A Guatemalan Peace Corps Experience
A guaduate in Home Economics and Education from Washington State University in Pullman, WA, Marge taught home economics to special education classes in a middle school and consumer education to low-income adults through a vocational school, both in Tacoma, WA. As a young girl, Marge was active in the Camp Fire Girls' program where she acquired skills that she applied as a Peace Corps volunteer. These helped Marge succeed in the Peace Corps. Her journal writing throughout her life brought her book to fruition. REVIEW1: MARGARITA is a great book and Margarita is a great friend. We became close as we shared adventures in Guatemala in the Peace Corps. Her experiences are poignant, funny, sad, and, overall, entertaining. Like Isak Dinesen's OUT OF AFRICA, Margarita paints a wonderful picture of the Guatemala she fell in love with--the fascinating cultural differences, the interesting and warm people, the colors of the country and weavings--as she shows us the everyday life as a Peace Corps volunteer. Enjoy! I know I did. REVIEW1_SOURCE: Liesl Santkuyl, Tacoma, Washington, former Peace Corps volunteer, Guatemala REVIEW2: Marge Casebolt was kind enough to send me her writings in the years she was in the Peace Corps. I loved them and found them to open a whole new world to me. I am enthusiastic to think this is actually a book of her experiences. REVIEW2_SOURCE: Glenmar Hetler, Santa Ana, California, classmate at Washington State University, Pullman, Washington REVIEW3: My wife Gloria and I have given our full reading attention to this narrative of Guatemala. It is in a style somewhere between IT TAKES A VILLAGE by Hillary Clinton to THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA by Ernest Hemingway. That which is most compelling is that it flows along as a singular person making observations of socio-economic and political shortcomings and conveys the real picture of how things are in the Third World countries, banana republics, etc. Marge has done some wonderful humanitarian work there that is without peer. REVIEW3_SOURCE: Hilmer Erickson, sociologist