archives

So I got denied at the Executive Mansion archives. Harsh. There was a fire at the mansion in 2006, which many viewed as an assassination attempt because the president was in the building at the time. Because of security reasons, then, (and I think they're not in the best condition, having survived a fire...) they don't let the public view them. Still, I think it's a little bit silly since what's the point of having archives if you can't look at them? But it hasn't all been dead ends: I found the National Archives building downtown yesterday and put in a request there, so I should finally have something to look at by Thursday next week. In the meantime, I've been exploring Monrovia (the grid system makes this really easy), watching a lot of CNN, sitting on the beach with my new friends, and actually doing a lot of work. I still have about 7,500 photographs of documents from Freetown to go through, so no shortage of work!