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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:59:39 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Woman dancing at "Woman's Fair" in Batulechaur.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:59:34 +0000

Date: 1965 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: A swing set up for the children in Batulechaur during the Dashain celebration. After the holidays were over, they villagers took the swing down until the nxt year.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:59:29 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Candidates for the panchayat at a "candidates meeting" in Batulechaur.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:59:24 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Grades 1-4 at Vindya Vasini School in Batulechaur met in huts with dirt floors which became very muddy after rain storms. There was an old demolished "Gorkha Palace" on the grounds and the school decided to move the flat stones from that site and use them to line to floors of the huts. All of the students participated in this "work day" to accomplish this.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:59:19 +0000

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:59:14 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: This water tap in Batulechaur was part of a water system built by the Indian government. Water only came to the tap about 2 hours a day, usually in the afternoon. Half of the families in Batulechaur would line up to get one gagro of water which was all they could use for the next 24 hours.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:59:09 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Bullock cart taking cargo that arrived by airplane at Pokhara air field. The only other alternative was by porters. Note the stairs that can be puched up to a DC3 for passengers to disembark.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:59:04 +0000

Date: 1965 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Woman selling peanuts at the Pokhara airfield.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:59 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Two men sawing wood into planks for a Batulechaur construction project.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:54 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Pokhara Description: Villagers selling mula (daikon) on the Pokhara airfield.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:50 +0000

Date: 1965 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: A woman in Batulechaur winnowing rice to remove husks

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:45 +0000

Date: 1965 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Kids and animals running through dried rice stalks in a courtyard to separate grains from stalks.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:40 +0000

Date: 1965 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Rice harvest in Batulechaur.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:35 +0000

Date: 1965 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Rice harvest in Batulechaur.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:30 +0000

Date:1965 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Women planting millet during a rainstorm in Batulechaur.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:25 +0000

Date: 1965-09 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Tents pitched on the Pokhara airfield by the Tom Dooley Foundation when the last plane of the day had mechanical problems and everyone needed to spend the night somewhere or walk back to their village.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:21 +0000

Date: 1965 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Typical houses on the outskirts of Batulechaur

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:16 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Tal Barahi temple in the middle of Phewa Tal.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:11 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Man who decided to swim from the shore of Phewa Tal to the Tal Barahi temple in the middle of the lake.

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Sun, 14 Jul 2019 12:58:06 +0000

Date: 1966 Location: Pokhara, Kaski Description: Woman doing laundry in Phewa Tal.