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The Yekepa Memory Project
These
are the items showing work done from the start of this site
in 1999 to Augsut 2007.
August
2007: Is anyone in Yekepa online? If you
are in Yekepa and have access to email, please contact us!
We see that there are computers at the old E-school - perhaps
there is Internet access too?
Good news
for Yekepa, finally? See comment #9 on the Yekepa Wordpress
site. Also see these fresh pictures
from a renovated Yekepa!
May
2007: Per Axbom tells us he has used the song 'President
Tubman' as a ring-tone on his phone! You too can do this
- see the sound recordings we
have. Lamco
News Mar/Apr 1975 and July/August
1975 on line now, thanks to help from Kurt Eriksson.
March
2007: See these
Yekepa photos!
New
issue of Lamco News scanned
and uploaded - thanks to Kurt Eriksson!
January
2007: There is an entry about Yekepa on Wikipedia
- why not contribute?
December
2006: Panorama
of Yekepa added. We have lost who sent us this! Who can
help?
November
2006: Lamco
News May-June 1974
and Jan-Feb 1975 are added,
thanks to Petra Hochstenbach. Heidi helps us with the EP
cover
for the Ali Ganda song.
Kurt Eriksson provides another sound file from radio
ELNR, from 1968.
October
2006: Yekepa
Home on the Web is back! Following
a lengthy search for a new place to put the site we return
undiminished.
April
2005: Emanuel
Sandberg provides 4 cartoons
from 'Inquirer'. Two more kids identified in 'mystery
class', thanks to Lena Åberg.
March
2005: One
more
kid identified in 'mystery
class', thanks to Anders Gränsmark.
January
2005: Two
more kids identified in 'mystery
class', thanks to Patrick Jonsson.
December
2002: Upgrade of joined image
of the view of area E from area F, thanks to Kurt Eriksson.
November
2002: December 1967 issue
of Lamco News added, again thanks to Kurt Eriksson!
October
2002: A Lamco-School
home page has been announced by Björn Edsholm.
February 1967 issue of
Lamco News added, thanks to Kurt Eriksson.
September
2002: March 1970 issue
of Lamco News added, thanks to Kurt Eriksson.
August
2002: April 1970 issue
of Lamco News added thanks to Kurt Eriksson. 1998 pictures
of Nimba mine added. October
1968 issue of Lamco News scanned.
July
2002: Special issue
of Lamco News 1972 added. Thanks to Petra Hochstenbach.
June
2002: Lamco News September
1968 added.
May
2002: Lamco News April
1968 added.
March and April 2002: Music!
February 2002: NIMBA VHS
casette tape available. 1960's
B&W pictures added
December
2001: Lamco
Information December 1964 scanned
October
2001: Lamco
News March 1968 scanned
August
2001: Lamco News Jan/Feb
1968 scanned
May
2001: 'Sounds of Liberia'
page started - click and listen to Liberia!
April
2001: 'Then&Now' page
of pictures started - got any additions?
March
2001: Updated most links on our 'Liberia
links' page, and added a link to Randy Sweeten's home
page for Bomi
Hills.
February
2001: Images
from Yekepa added, thanks to Bernt Karlsson. Reunion
picture addded thanks to Emanuel Sandberg.
Announcement:
The surplus from the sales
of the book "En Äventyrlig historia", about
Lamco in Yekepa, has been donated to aid Liberia.
The book has now been sold in more than 500 copies. The
surplus has been forwarded in equal parts to Caritas
and Médecins Sans Frontières. Both organizations
are involved in humanitarian work in Liberia. Thanks to
all readers, each of the organizations has now received
SEK 25 000. The book, at a price of SEK 200 + postage, can
be ordered from
Hans Ardelius
Karlbergsvägen
46B
S-113 37 Stockholm, Sweden
e-mail: hans.ardelius@chello.se
January
2001: More words added to Liberian
Speech book.
We
have a new link to this site - please update your bookmarks!
It should read http://yekepa.digitalfarmers.com
November
2000: Pictures of Lamco mine, and
ore truck, and some aerial
views, in 1985 added thanks to Emanuel Sandberg and
Kurt Eriksson. Colette has helped us with pictures and an
account of the 1983 rail bus
crash. Lamco News Oct/Dec
1973, Jul/Aug 1974
and Nov/Dec 1976 added,
thanks to Ulla Sherman and Kurt Eriksson.
October
2000: Radio
ELNR now on the home page. Lamco
News Nov/Dec 1979 scanned
September
2000: Book
of Liberian Speech scanned.
July
2000: New
book about Yekepa announced.
May
2000: New
Liberia currency.
Stamp of General Quiwonkpa
added.
April
2000: May
1967 Lamco News scanned.
March
2000: Trond
Torkildsen scanned an issue of Liberian
Star newspaper. December
1970, and October/November
1970 issues of Lamco News scanned by Peter Gartsjö.
February
2000: A page for Art, inspired
by Yekepa has been added. Lamco News
February 1970 and November
1973, scanned by Peter Gartsjö has been added.
January
2000: A Lamco Passport
pamphlet added, thanks to efforts by
Peter Gartsjö!. January
1967 (and March)
as well as the July/Aug/Sept
1973 issues of Lamco News scanned. More
present-day residential area pictures by Bernt Karlsson.
"LAMCO Liberia" promotional pamphlet,
and LAMCO News from September
1966 scanned. Thanks to Peter!
December
1999: LAMCO News Nov.
and Dec. 1966
added. More images added thanks to Stefan Forsmark - try
the new 'Nature' button at left
and also have a look in 'Community'.
November 1999 Stamps,
and Photos from 1998 of
Yekepa added, thanks to Bernt Karlsson.
3 more E-school pictures added; 1969-1972, thanks to Linda
Hutton. December 1968
and May 1970 issues
of LAMCO News also added. Link
to additional Finnhamn reunion picture(s).
MAY
1999 Seven official color pictures
from Buchanan are added to the site. Please mail to
us if you can tell us anything
about the pictures.
Newspaper clipping
in Swedish tells a story about Dick
Johansson.
Another
copy of Lamco News was scanned.
We got a Christmas
post card from Eric Forsmark.
APRIL
1999 More copies of Lamco
News scanned. Pictures from Recreation
Building during 1965-1968 are ready to view. A birds
eye view from 1965, a map from the
Nimba Area and an overview
of the Community Center are added. Eric
Forsmark sent us four post
cards. A mailing list
is set up.
MARCH
1999 Some pictures from the swimming
pool are added.
FEBRUARY 1999
Added a page with scanned Liberian stamps. Yowser. Scanned
four copies of Lamco News.
Updated the Liberian
Links Page. Scanned pictures from E-school.
/J.
JANUARY 1999
We set up this site.
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