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13445: Corbett is back home in St. Louis after three weeks in Haiti
>From Bob Corbett
Corbett is back home in St. Louis after a marvelous three week visit to
Haiti where I met many wonderful folks and heard interesting papers at the
HAS conference, read and reviewed 6 books on Haiti (these will appear
little by little on the mailing list as I get a chance to type up my hand
written notes), and just had a lovely and relaxing time.
The HAS conference was three days and each evening there was a major
social event. Alas, I never made a single one of those. I intended to
attend every one of them, but by about 5 PM each afternoon my knees had
just given out and I would collapse into a taxi and get back to the Hotel
Oloffson just falling into bed. Other than those three days for the
conference, and the first day I was there going out for shampoo which I
had forgotten, and one simply marvelous set of parties which Lauri Bushey
and Lance Durban gave, I never left the Oloffson. My knees just wouldn't
allow it.
I don't say this with any regret at all. What a wonderful place to read,
write and meet people which were my primary reasons for this visit.
I will be building many new web pages on my Haiti sight for various issues
(and I'll call attention to them on the mailing list as I get them built),
and will be coming to you all to beg help with a major project that I want
to work on for 2004, but need your help.
Crazy -- I was as healthy as can be (save my knees) for my whole Haiti
visit and now that I'm back in St. Louis I am a bit sick. Perhaps the
water here in St. Louis just isn't as good as that they serve at the
Oloffson!!!! I know the food at my house isn't anywhere as good as it is
there.
I give special thanks to Richard Morse for allowing me to use his
computer, but I really wasn't able to keep up with the list. His modem is
a bit slow and there was so much mail. My computer here is lightening
fast and I can keep up without as much frustration. But, using his e-mail
did allow me to stay in touch with family and to get some of the notes out
from time to time.
I will write more, perhaps ever some highlights of my trip, but certainly
more about the work of others whose work I hope to give web space to.
Lots more coming in the month of November.
Bob Corbett