Nancy heads South, too.

Nancy arrived in Memphis today as my emissary to Maggy. Jon and Sam are still in New York.

I had a really great dinner last night in Grahamstown with the wife of the lecturer I am filling in for and his two wonderful daughters and other colleagues from the Department. This evening I toured Grahamstown with one of those colleagues. This is a starkly beautiful place where so many different cultures have come together and appear to live in harmony and while the very wealthy are not nearly as wealthy any more, there are some rich, in stark contrast the poverty of the local township and poorer extensions. While some of them still live in shanty homes, others live in one room or two rooms run down homes with no modern sewage facilities, although that is coming. The rate of TB here is epidemic, as is Aids; the unemployment rate in the township area is said to be close to 7o percent. There are a lot of dogs on the streets, and wandering cows, which must belong to people....and then just further away from town on the outside of the township common lands for locals to graze their animals. Below is a donkey cart in that area. The land is dry from an ongoing drought that is further adding to the unemployment.