Phước Vĩnh in 1964 was the capital of Phước Thành (“Happiness”) province and the headquarters of something called the PBT Special Zone, which started a few miles north of Saigon and extended all the way to the Cambodian border, a distance of eighty to a hundred miles depending on which Read More …
In a letter dated March 15, 1965, I wrote: Meanwhile, freshly returned from five days Rambling and Rumination in Hong Kong, I seem to be assigned to Phuoc Vinh again, which, you may remember, was where I was July-October of last year. There are over a hundred Americans here now, Read More …
The youth hostel at Avignon is on an island in the Rhone River. During my first visit there, in May or early June of 1963, I had a long talk one evening on the embankment by the edge of the water with a young man, a German, of about my Read More …
I realize that this photo from the year 1965 is quite blurry, but I’m posting it here anyway because this house with the little steeple is the only building I recognized when I returned to Phước Vĩnh thirty years later. Unlike Tân Ba, which was basically unchanged when I returned Read More …