Tucson Region

Tucson Time Capsule : Home away from home

At age 65, retired Flowing Wells kindergarten teacher Norma Musar had found a new home. The Peace Corps volunteer was back in Tucson on July 17, 1988, for a short time to stock up on supplies. Then she would head back to her new home, Crooked Tree, Belize, in Central America, where she was beginning her third year as a Peace Corps volunteer. She had recently been named one of 24 Peace Corps Volunteers of the Year. During her time in Belize, she had, among other projects, overseen rebuilding the school library, taught at the school, started a small economic venture for the women and was working on a grant to pen and breed the village's pigs to improve the meat. Read about Tucson's role in the early Peace Corps at Tales From the Morgue: go.azstarnet.com/morguetales.