Live, From Burlington, Vermont!

Just a quick update to say"Hi" to the Rebunk community from Burlington, Vermont, perhaps America's finest small city, from Casa de Holmes. I arrived here yesterday (after a long day of travel from Odessa to New Hampshire, where I was able to get in some golf with Dad and my uncles) in time to get to most of this conference that brings me this far, the Northeast Workshop on Southern Africa (NEWSA), a truly special gathering that occurs here every 18 months. This morning I gave my paper, which was on the killing of four activists (the Cradock Four) in the Eastern Cape of South Africa in 1985, part of a project on which I have been working off and on for several years. I will be presenting another facet of that project at the Canadian Association of African Studies meeting in Montreal in a few days.

Things with Rich have been great. We figured out that, for reasons too laborious to explain, we had not seen each other since New Year's Eve/Day 1999-2000. It's been wonderful catching up and sampling this gorgeous city's finest eating and drinking establishments. I've spent quite a lot of time up here in the past, but had not been back since my last NEWSA meeting a few years ago.

I'll be off again tomorrow morning (I have tickets for Game Two of the Celts-Pacers playoff series, and am trying to get seats at Fenway for Tuesday night)but will be coming back through to visit Rich and his lovely wife, Kim, on my way to montreal. Blogging from my end will be light, but it looks as if Tom has gotten a pretty good discussion going.