Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. the St. Michaels branch of the Talbot County Free Library will present a talk by Jo-Anne Vaughn. The topic of Ms Vaughn’s talk is The Dani People of the Baliem Valley, Papua, New Guinea.
Jo-Anne Vaughn is an Indonesian speaker; she taught English and travelled extensively throughout the Indonesia archipelago while working for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Along with her husband, Tony, a United States Foreign Service Public Information Officer, the two lived in Indonesia for eight (8) years.
One of Jo-Anne’s most memorable trips was an adventure to Irian Jaya, Indonesia’s most remote province, accompanied by her friend from the United States Department of Agriculture. The trip was a fascinating glimpse into the lives of these Neolithic/stone-age people who are just being discovered and studied by western scholars and anthropologists. The trip was organized and led by a Canadian anthropologist, Julie Campbell who went on to write a definitive book about the Dani people living in the isolated Baliem Valley in the center of the province.
Ms Vaughn and her husband currently reside in St. Michaels. For more information, call the library at 410-745-5877, or visit www.tcfl.org.
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