The NPR group's driver, Beemie, and his family Sunny Hill is not really either.
Sunlight is strained through a haze of burning trash and post-war house fires.
The buildings were not long on amenities like electricity and water. But they abounded with congenial neighbors who made our time there richer, our reporting deeper, and our leaving harder. Shawn Fox had preceded us as the engineering support for an extraordinary NPR team that included Mike Shuster, John Burnett, Melissa Block, Andy Bowers, and Jennifer Glass. And these kids, playing all around us, would just lift us up. And so they did.