Part 13: 战时绕道
我一直想早点回到岛屿 1942 Harriet and I, 约翰和杰西·梅斯陪同, 从Puerto Armuelles 专程前往Cristobal，我们在华盛顿酒店住宿并进行了安排…
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Part 12: Family Events – San Blas
Bill Sutherland, a Company headquarters lawyer in Boston, on temporary duty in Puerto Armuelles and Panama City, and his wife, Edna Mae, were close friends of ours. We had several common interests, among them pre-Colombian history of Central America and…
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Part 11: Sigatoka
***If you missed the previous installments, click on the links here: 1928: Part 1, 1928: Part 2, 1928: Part 3, 1928: Part 4, 1929:Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10 Regressing a little, Sigatoka (Cercospora musae), a leaf spot disease of bananas,…
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Part 10: Indian Graves, Butterflies and Fossils
***If you missed the previous installments, click on the links here: 1928: Part 1, 1928: Part 2, 1928: Part 3, 1928: Part 4, 1929:Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9 With a servant and an occasional baby sitter in the house, Harriet and I…
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Part 9: Married Life in Puerto
The lighter-hand system of loading ships was used for about two years until a new wharf and conveyors had been built. All planning and reconstruction work, even down to deep-sea divers, was done by Company personnel – local and transfer…
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San Antonio High School: 65 Years in Puerto Armuelles
游行 2019 marks the 65 year anniversary of Colegio San Antonio (San Antonio High School) in Puerto Armuelles. The school is a Private Catholic Education institution, founded by Father Jaime Gleason in 1954. The school is located next to the…
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Part 8: Ships and an Earthquake
In the summer of 1932, with savings of about $300, I went on vacation, flying to Panama City and taking a Company ship from Cristobal, via Kingston, 牙买加, where it loaded bananas, to New York. The ship was filled up…
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Part 7: Life in Puerto Armuelles
我错过了林地农场的令人兴奋的生活，但是有了未受破坏的丛林,,en,如此靠近城镇，我仍然可以享受大自然的乐趣，周末步行进入森林,,en,在一般办公楼的尽头，只看一个二层窗户,,en,几英尺远,,en,在丛林边界的一棵大树上,,en,我可以看到一个巨大的懒惰,,en,这种动物在那里度过了好几年，这是一种罕见的动作，其动作缓慢，姿势颠倒，大部分长毛覆盖着绿藻的生长。,,en,只是看到它有效地保留了大部分城镇居民离开森林,,en,搬到波多黎各,,en,每天都听到和看到吼猴的乐队,,en,成群的几种鹦鹉,,en,美丽的猩红色金刚鹦鹉,,en,发出喧闹的电话,,en’ so close to town I could still enjoy the pleasures of nature with weekend walks into the forest. Just looking out of a second-story window alone…
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Part 6: 搬到Puerto Armuelles,,en,搬到Puerto Armuelles,,en,到这时Puerto Armuelles已成为师的总部而且,,en,像所有公司城镇一样,,en,它包括了大部分的设施，为居住在那里的员工提供舒适的家庭和家庭生活,,en,码头已经完工，船上的建筑材料纷纷抵达,,en,附近的一条河已被拦截供水,,en,抽到一个大的立管,,en,沿着海滩建造了一百多个劳改营大约一英里,,en,从一端的码头和本土村庄,,en,到另一端的海边丛林,,en,劳教所后面有一家大型机械车间,,en,发电厂,,en,材料部门建筑和铁路车场用于存放车辆,,en 1929
Part 6: 搬到Puerto Armuelles这时Puerto Armuelles已成为部门总部和,en, like all company towns, it included most of the amenities for a comfortable home and family life for the employees living there. The…
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Part 5: The Transition in 1929
Part 5: The Transition in 1929 Just as I was finishing the planting of Guacimo farm in late 1929 the railroad arrived in Esperanza and that was the end of the “good life” on a woodland Farm. ***If you missed…
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