A Look Back in Time
"The Most Memorable Holiday We Ever Had"
KAREN EARNSHAW Former Peace Corps volunteer Dave Moss, who grew up in Richmond California, arrived in the Marshall Islands in July, 1968 to work as a teacher. First he taught at Rita Elementary and then moved on to Marshall Islands High School. He shared a house with Ron Levy, who worked with a number of Read More
Coconut Zen
April, 2018: The crew of the big red yacht Infinity this month spearheaded the making of a musical ditty about a little slice of life in Majuro, capital of the Marshall Islands, which they described as “the most endangered country in the world due to flooding from climate change.” On the YouTube post, the ‘Sea Read More
Watch Zori
Watch Zori, the ‘big’ short film from Jack Niedenthal’s Microwave Films. It was made in 2013.
Your Human Rights
The Pacific Community Human Rights and Social Development Division asked Microwave Film’s Jack Niedenthal to make a short film on Human Rights. To do this they chose to use children to tell the story using three languages: Marshallese, English and sign language. The children who star in the locally-produced video Your Human Rights — Jimwe Read More
Bonny Taggart
Remembering RMI
Today’s guest writer for Remembering RMI is Bonny Taggart, who sailed into Majuro with husband Ken on December 9, 2007. They left the Marshall Islands on October 7, 2016. There are so many memories from my nine years in the Marshall Islands, but none fonder than the joy shared with the children at the three Read More
Fr. Fran Hezel, SJ
Remembering RMI
Today’s guest writer for Remembering RMI is Fr. FRAN HEZEL, SJ, who has been a regular visitor to the Marshall Islands since 1965. My first visit to Majuro in 1965 was memorable. On Sundays Fr. Len Hacker would hop in his bus to pick up the Sunday mass-goers and bring them to his porch where Read More
Natalie Nimmer
Remembering RMI
Today’s guest is NATALIE NIMMER who lived in the RMI between 2002-2011 for a total of six years. A WorldTeach volunteer assigned to Wotje, she later became Vice Principal at Northern Islands High School and then WorldTeach Field Director, Co-op High School Principal, and an adjunct instructor at CMI. In the Fall of 2002, a Read More
Tom Armbruster
Remembering RMI
Today’s Remembering RMI guest writer is former US Ambassador to the Marshall Islands TOM ARMBRUSTER who served in this position from August 2012 to May 2016. My favorite place in the Marshall Islands was anywhere underwater. The first time I saw a shark I knew I had to take my cue from Hiro, RayCrew’s incomparable Read More
Love Like the Islands
Six9Too Productions/Baka Solomon has just published Love Like the Islands, which on their YouTube channel is described as: “An Island Reggae mix recorded and produced at Six9too Productions Studio in the Marshall Islands located in the heart of the vast Pacific Ocean. Six9too is made up of a growing group of talented producers, artists and Read More
Marshallese Twins in Concert
Marshallese-born twins Julia and Emma Churchill performed a spectacular concert at the Marshall Islands Resort Friday. The young ladies, who were adopted by Mark and Marylou Churchill when they were eight months old, have been studying music from the age of four, with Julia playing violin and Emma the cello. Mark proudly introduced his daughters, Read More
