Week Five: October 9-15

	Wet down

I return to a city in the grips of an anthrax scare. Friends horde Cipro.

The government releases a string of “credible threat” warnings, and security is higher than ever.

Closed

Masks for sale

Streets are sprayed daily to settle the dust. Gas masks appear in Chinatown.

$40 each

Jamaica, Vermont

I spend a weekend with friends in Vermont.

Recent addition

Carrying the oar inland

The only reminder is a flag raised over stone cairns.

Cairns