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=E2=80=A6The name for this publication caused us some thought. We wanted a=20=
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that would reflect the color of life out here [Izmir, Turkey], but would not=
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sound over-ambitious. After consideration of various names that will come t=
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your mind, too, we have chosen OLIVE LEAVES. After our decision was made, w=
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read that Turkey is sending a number of olive trees to be planted on Mahatma=
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Gandhi's grave. A Moslem land sends olive leaves to a Hindu land, and so we=
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in a Moslem land send these OLIVE LEAVES as a distillation of our Christian=20
heritage and experience. =E2=80=A6
Lynda Blake, Izmir.
Olive Leaves is a collection of short stories, sermons, travel notes, poetry=
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and local history, mostly of a religious nature gathered by the American=20
community in the Cigli/Izmir area of Turkey in the early 1960s. I suspect=20
these were distributed from the base chapel at Cigli air base to newcomers t=
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the base and its corresponding civilian community in Izmir. It clearly=20
predates my family's arrival in Turkey in 1964.
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