People came, working with scrap metal, cast-off wood and cloth, industrial paint, rope, string, dirt, lights, mirrors, video.
The collapsible format protects them from dirt and light.
Among the group's other findings were that the interiors of buses grew dirtier -- there were 92 percent with no dirt or light dirt during the period in 1997 and 1998, and only 80percentt in that condition the following year.
But under the right conditions, dirt and light and water conspire to make the most of the little seed, and it becomes a mighty oak.
Although neither horse has raced on dirt, Fantastic Light appeared to be the better candidate of the two for the Classic because he is a versatile horse who seems to adapt well and had a sharp workout on Belmont's main track Tuesday.
"But before they reconstruct the world they lost in their creation story," D'Agata writes, "the Cahto make a point of lingering on the details of the flood's devastation, noting how it methodically disassembled the world around them by erasing each part of it, piece by piece by piece: the mountains, trees, birds, people, weather, dirt, and light".
It will be a big change for residents, who are used to the old shelter with ratty couches, small and inadequate space heaters, floors and walls pocked and blackened with dirt, broken lighting, electrical cords snaking along floors and a leaky ceiling.
"We arrived to find huge mud puddles, dangling electric wires, no stair lights, pathways not lit, dirt everywhere and trucks creating clouds of dust," said Anne Sager of New York, who had gone to the resort for a weeklong holiday with her husband, their children and grandchildren from France, and a son and his fiancee from California.
Colour, textures, light, dirt: all of these form the fundament of our early memories, and have now found their way into some of the images that I made on my return".
Although the study did not include litter as a factor in cleanliness, floors and seats were rated as clean if no more than light dirt or ground in spots were found.
