Midafternoon Sunday, we left for Durham.\u00a0 The car was a Toyota Corolla with a cruise control system that automatically slowed down when following a car.\u00a0 That resulted in my driving slower than I otherwise would, forgetting to change lanes and pass. \u00a0The worst part was that it followed rather distantly behind the car ahead, making people behind me want to pass me and fill in the gap.<\/p>\n
We stopped at the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, which had closed but whose grounds were still open for walking around.\u00a0 There was quite a bit of sculpture outdoors, including a little Rodin garden, with the sculptures having been donated by none other than Iris and Gerald Cantor, for whom the Stanford art museum is named; it also has a large Rodin collection.\u00a0 A class of art students were visiting.\u00a0 One was crying.<\/p>\n
We drove on to Durham, found our Days Inn, and went off to dinner at Viceroy, a restaurant downtown celebrating the relationship between Britain and India:\u00a0 India had been colonized by Britain, and British pub culture had been colonized by Indian food.\u00a0 The owner told us the story of many of the pictures hung on the walls, and the decor just generally.<\/p>\n
We hadn\u2019t been able to see our friend in Durham that night, but we arranged to meet with him for breakfast Monday at Monut\u2019s.\u00a0 Adam is a \u201clecturing fellow\u201d in anthropology at Duke, which doesn\u2019t give him tenure or anything, or even much of a salary, but provides him with a place he can continue to do his research into child-raising in the Central Africa Republic.\u00a0 It’s hard when your friends live in a war zone that’s colored red on the State Department Warning map.\u00a0 Adam has been doing a bit of child-raising of his own as well.\u00a0 We met them briefly.<\/p>\n
As we were eating breakfast, who should walk into the restaurant but the bride and groom, whose flight had been delayed by eight hours, and for whom Monut\u2019s was an old favorite spot.\u00a0 Small world again!\u00a0 After breakfast we drove over to Duke and checked out the gardens and the chapel.\u00a0 It looked Ivy League.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Midafternoon Sunday, we left for Durham.\u00a0 The car was a Toyota Corolla with a cruise control system that automatically slowed down when following a car.\u00a0 That resulted in my driving slower than I otherwise would, forgetting to change lanes and pass. \u00a0The worst part was that it followed rather distantly behind the car ahead, making … Continue reading A Professor in Appalachia, Part 1<\/span>