The weatherman had been hedging on his snow forecast although he said it would get much colder by midnight. There was all kinds of stuff going on around town. Tonight's benefit was staged to raise consciousness about the health impact of industrial hog farming. In North Carolina, there are more hogs than people. They are being farmed in narrow stalls, fed quickly with food and antibiotics and eliminated.
Hogs eliminate as much waste as humans.
In North Carolina, a lot of this waste, because it's a farm and outside the jurisdiction of community, washes into the rivers and lakes and ultimately the water supply. The Water Keeper Alliance has assembled a team of America's best attorneys to represent a broad coalition of environmentalists, public health officials, family farm activists, and rural life advocates to handle the problem. The club, once upon a time, was not only old line, but beyond stuffy. Today, they've modernized, opened up to a broader membership and allow their main public rooms to be available for dinners, receptions and dances. There are still a lot of men, and women too, for that matter, who love the old clubs of New York.