This is a working Table of Contents for a memoir currently in preparation. Click on links to see what already has been provisionally completed and for representative pictures.  Print and e-book publication is planned by early 2027 by Manuscript LLC, available on Amazon (KDP) and Ingramspark. A Korean language version is also expected.  

Preface   

Timeless Mudungsan

Table of Contents (full)

Introduction:  Getting to Kwangju 

Chapter 1:  Kwangju, Bright City 光 州

Chapter 2.  A Bright City in a Wicked World

Chapter 3.  Forward and Backward in Time on the KTX Express

Chapter 4.  The Mission, "to the Ends of the Earth"

Chapter 5.  Yang Nim Dong, T Brown's Cafe, Schools, and the Beach  

Chapter 6.   Mokpo, Mother's Hometown, Coming to Kwangju by a Better Way

Chapter 7.  Family History, "from the Ends of the Earth"

Chapter 8.  Economic Reform and Change in Kwangju

Chapter 9.  At "Elbows Length"

Chapter 10.  Leaving Korea, but going back again and again

Epilog.  Outside, Looking In--from Northern Virginia