Tape 1: 1981: My car accident/Kuna trouble for Gruvers/E'burg man wants me to write book/Crooked corn rows/music/traditional Kuna ways

Tape 2: August 12, 1981: Days of my life/Paternal roots and their helping runaway slaves

Tape 3: August 31, 1981: Cockroaches are nervous/Gruvers to C.A. Rosa Tasom/ Demolish V. Velde Barn/Charlotte sings Sula on piano

Tape 4: December 18, 1981: Carlitos, Mack, Gerry, and I locked in at Ailigandi/The ideas for our book Born Primitive/We island hop at San Blas/I introduce Marvel to Aunt Nellie

Tape 5: December 1982: Jane's cancer/Jud/Oran/Xmas bits/How I created book characters/Spanish translation details/Walt Reitz/Autograph party

Tape 6: December 1982/January 1983: A Kuna's chief tomb is EMPTY??/MV reports re: the business of books co-authored by Vandervelde and Iglesias/Jane G. has cancer/How I created the characters in our books/Kuna tribal problems

Tape 7: January 29, 1983: Book manuscript/El past translator/Mex typesetter in Spanish/LakeMills publisher/Blizzard/GV medical procedure

Tape 8: February 1983: Kathy to stay with me/Our book ms. details/Our lake-ice road/Farm markets/Greece and Hellenism/Publishing our books in Spanish/I try to get award for Marvel I.

Tape 9: June 6, 1983: Our book translation to Spanish/Our Mexico hideaway, Pacific/Mission bd vs Marvel/Kuna problems to solve/ Plan September trek to Pan. celebration/Brother Glenn/Illegal goose/Reitz to service in crisis

Tape 10: October 1983: Details to eye surgery

Tape 11: October 28, 1983: Stick bridge/The surgery joke/Kathy to WY/No maid at home alas/The old piano/Cay wedding/Our book unveiling/Psalms/Xmas box to Arabian Sea/Coon on roof

Tape 12: November 1983: Marjorie to Marvel/Our 1st farm/eyes/GV's and DV's to Cay wedding/Retirement homes/Confer ranch/Mola quilt/Patriotism

Tape 13: November 1983: My eye/Yard, birds, Rookettes/No rocking-chair-missionary/Our books give a new life to MIX and to MV too

Tape 14: December 1983: Voices/Cockroach mola/Xmas decor/Freighter food/Chief Ceferino's father's tomb empty!! Risen or stolen??/Milton romance/Beth B/Pay graphic/New stove for Marvel/Fire aboard Kent's airplane carrier Ranger

Tape 15: January 1984: Rooks, Alicia/Lost corpse/Kuna funeral/Puerto Rico and Morrocco/Books, winter rainbow

Tape 16 (copy of Tape 15): January 1984: Rookettes (4-some)/Kuna Alciouna corpse lost/Kuna funeral/Puerto Rico and IG book-boxes to Panama/Winter rainbow

Tape 17: January 1984: GV's gifts/GV's room like my father's 1890 doctor office/My Quaker thoughts re: communion and ritual/Jesse Jackson, Black candidate/Walt Reitz, bravo!!

Tape 18: January 1984: Atilio's kiss/Greg's problem/Name calling/Galvas (albino)/Marvel's sisters/Sula's story/Sewing

Tape 19: February 23, 1984: Jungle farm/Blizzard hospitality/Doc Mills to Harvey Walker/The bomb/NY journalists to our home/The flush vote/Get ready for blizzard/Drop-ins at Ailigandi

Tape 20: March 20, 1984: Alicio/Atilio/Loco Kuna/Sula and Grand Central Station, Chicago/BJ University

Tape 21: March 1984: Puerto Rico trek/Mola quilt/Chief Ceferino/My velvet collar of childhood/Snowmobiles/Panama's Herrara a guest?/ Guaymi Indian with a chaueffeur?/More of our travel plans/U.S. drugs-control vs. what we saw in Turkey

Tape 22: June 10, 1984: Ulbaldino/Mayo Clinic and W'loo/Salvador refugees/About confers and ranch/Meeting Glenn/Reba Pierce/Circle pro.

Tape 23: July 1, 1984: Rhubarb fence/Canoe in cornfield/Cook, family reunion/Spike, 11, owns lake/Aunt Walzy/KV air boss on carrier ranger vs. Russians/Fire!!

Tape 24: July 13-15, 1984: Cabin in forest/My sons and family trivia plus professional business of having one of our books translated into Spanish

Tape 25: July 25, 1984: Marina and Perrine guests/El Salvador Quaker medic/Economics USA/Vandy anchors me/Negatives/Hairdo/Nicaragua/Moskitos