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. a __ THE COLEORNE CHRONICLE - Thursday, December 13. 2001 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ __-...- LOCAL NEWS i: " " " Al t S th ll - 'i- I _ _ rc m... , :5 BY MANDY MAON minded and generous, they are i»? ‘ ' f .i » . , 'GI I ' [Sl _ r” STArr WRIYER . ' alive with curiosity and interest r Bid If” ' - ' , g -igi e 'aa-i' *5 .» in everyone else. Ask them about " - ' q - -- ' t , - i} . ' " ‘ q From Austria to Canada via their own lives, they are ahashed Fs'.21t> m. _ ' _ _ s', t? . E" L' . _ Ira F / 'r, . , . and self-eifac'rng, The wonder, the l VFP, - C rr . I _ i Switzerland to the Jungles of B h ' . _ _ _ .. . _ " l? LI a l ' South America, Henry Buchegger lf 8339's maintain, IS the gift _ f l - '_' . 1vr_, ' .. I a. a . [ :' has finally had the time to record of 1155;5954’2 " - f . t _ . 'lltre ME q F m h] , a LC", " ill JE . . :3 some ofthe incredible experi- in YI monestsa ascma _ 'A' f r ‘. "". C - _ (g I _ a. . . _ . greed. . . . -’ ences and events in his 11 years. “I l a _ . I. _ . ", tt _ ' tl , i 2 Last year, he sat down to sort . ' 3;- 'ij' ,' f. , .l J I " _, 'G -, ‘I ., . . 'iris-. 7, IE f: through the photos, the thoughts "Not mueli is really known [2 _,. f. . _ , "q Q , C Tr A he; 'gl ' J o,v,,'v' if and memories. The result is a 120- about the history of the Ayores ' , A"si' ' er' s.d sl, ‘ 'te. ,. I ; w gran "miWrs','d , M, page self-published book, brim. except for some records discov- ha, _, . . ', ' ' I ' . . 'ht ' _ P, 'e,?.',:, " full ofphotos, alive with convic- tilted In the Musellm of Natural IE?, - _ y - , . . (ti") . gas, Jsr. ., . l .. _ t' tion and often gut-wrenching History 1n P3918. The Ayores I . - / t "+7 tti:," _rs _ reality. werea nomadic people roaming . r, _ e . .. w _ . 1,! c't', l _ _ _ the Jungles of southeastern * Ti'l L - C, '1. W _ _ L k v While the book is a personal. Bolivia and northwestern E . {jig-f“. l, - .:;:¢ ‘ _ _ / , memoir, it is Henry's wife Joyce Paraguay. They were a robust g ' s', _ I ' " he , "e /fii',r' (e' f . ; it; , r, and the couple's six children who and healthy people because no b _. a " ", _ . 'ia V / d 'dit, . , 5. are the earthly angels of the tale. one with mental or physical Fd _ * ' . or“ ir,") tr C att? ' yy. , As a family, they were 11 years in defects was allowed to survive, To , 7 . ' Le, 7 I, , . rrrs'rr',r1i'.s:i?,st _ r' thejungles of South America, become a chief, a man had to [4' * at" .. cu It; , _ . C 'id , Ir serving with a mission to the prove himseifboth as a killer and . ' if FJ. , " It , “a . , ' Ayores Indians. The meeting and a practicing witch doctor. This -, , u caa' .1'3‘ . 4? _ seemingly incongruous meshing was the ambition of most of the , _ A J . _ ' . ~.. i, of two very different cultures is young men and resulted in their ' crsal I - . . ', clear in the factual relaying of going off on the warpath against :;-" ' J. _ . ' events. enemy groups two or three times a . ', And there are all the other 61 a year. 'IT.'I_ , '. years to place in one family's can The Ayores first contact with Ph'; ' m " _, “a - . t text, too. Theirs tsan adventure the white man was in the 1600s h1'trit?.,riCr2l ,sstrisiciiiyp w" t ', few dare to consider, let alone when Jesuit missionaries tried IEjiyrfrD . ', AN" If": t?" _ . i undertake. and partially succeeded in evan- Ti- 1 ' I F lie-' “ l Cai- Ai. i Today, Henry and Joyce gelizing them. One of the Jesuit Lrr" _ Tli" " ' " =gu'tWs ii: _ _ k , a Buchegger are retired,-living in missionaries with 12 of his con- b", _ . ' ' , Ii' 55:53: ' _"," ' ', Castleton, attending Eddysione verts to Christianity went south "? - I . ' , sv' ', Baptist Church and participate in from Bolivia into the area that is ' . rr s .. 4' '. ’ " ', numerous community and now known as Paraguay attempt- All moms COURTESY or HENRY BtCHiiGGryt Joyce Buchegger served as camp nurse, Much eye infection ' l church events, Welcoming, open- ing to befriend southern groups. ___ _ was caused lay the custom of removing eyelashes and eye- . _ I brows. ". F _ 9 “flee a Lo fy 2 p' J J