An Octopus Never Forgets

Published on June 26, 2026

It took Gene Carl Feldman an hour to walk around the tiny Western Samoan island of Manono, where he received his Peace Corps training, but only if he politely refused the countless invitations he received to stop and eat at each and every home he passed. And most of those meals were either grown or raised on the island or caught in the nearby lagoon.  Manono was Gene's 1974 training site.... Read more

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