Background
Rosamond Halsey Carr was born in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. She is the daughter of William Gurden and Rosamond Halsey.
Rosamond visiting an orphanage in East Africa during the campaign.
(In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrato...)
In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation. Land of a Thousand Hills is Carr's thrilling memoir of her life in Rwanda - a love affair with a country and a people that has spanned half a century. During those years, she has experienced everything from stalking leopards to rampaging elephants, drought, the mysterious murder of her friend Dian Fossey, and near-bankruptcy. She has chugged up the Congo River on a paddle-wheel steamboat, been serenaded by pygmies, and witnessed firsthand the collapse of colonialism. Following 1994's Hutu-Tutsi genocide, Carr turned her plantation into a shelter for the lost and orphaned children-work she continues to this day, at the age of eighty-seven.
https://www.amazon.com/Land-Thousand-Hills-Life-Rwanda/dp/0452282020/?tag=2022091-20
1999
Rosamond Halsey Carr was born in South Orange, New Jersey, United States. She is the daughter of William Gurden and Rosamond Halsey.
During her early years, Rosamond attended private schools.
Rosamond worked as a fashion designer for department stores in New York in 1929. She changed her job to work as a manager for a flower plantation in the Congo during 1949-1952. That year she moved to Mugongo flower plantation to continue her work as manager. Later in 1954, she became the owner of plantation.
(In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrato...)
1999Rosamond Carr has married in 1942 Kenneth Carr, who was an explorer and big game hunter. They divorced in 1956.
