{"id":14287,"date":"2021-11-22T05:43:50","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T13:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/?p=14287"},"modified":"2021-11-22T05:43:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T13:43:50","slug":"phavorite-photos-wenchuan-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exhaustnotes.us\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/11\/22\/phavorite-photos-wenchuan-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"Phavorite Photos: Wenchuan Woman"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are photogenic people in Wenchuan.\u00a0 One is the Wenchuan man I described in a previous Phavorite Photos blog, and another is the young lady shown in the large photo above.\u00a0 For lack of a better name, I’ll call her Apple Annie.\u00a0 Some of you folks my age or older might remember the 1961 feel-good film A Pocketful of Miracles<\/em>, in which Bette Davis played a character named Apple Annie.<\/p>\n

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Bette Davis has nothing on our Wenchuan Apple Annie.\u00a0 After Gresh and I got out of the Wenchuan police station (we had to register as foreigners), we were walking along a main street through Wenchuan.\u00a0 \u00a0Apple Annie was selling fruits and vegetables on the sidewalk, and somehow her bushel full of apples tipped over.\u00a0 Before you could say “Oh, no!” in Mandarin, apples literally rolled into four lanes of busy Wenchuan traffic.\u00a0 That’s when our pocketful of miracles occurred:\u00a0 Traffic absolutely stopped, Gresh hopped into the street before Annie or I realized what had happened, and then we jumped in, too, along with a bunch of other Chinese good Samaritans.\u00a0 \u00a0As traffic patiently waited (not one horn honked), we recovered every one of Annie’s apples.\u00a0 She gave Gresh and I one as a small thank you, along with the beautiful smile you see above.<\/p>\n

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In 2008, Wenchuan had one of the largest earthquakes in recorded history (a magnitude 8.0 quake), and between 65,000 to 80,000 people died.\u00a0 Something like 80% of the buildings in Wenchuan collapsed.<\/p>\n

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Some of the damaged buildings were left standing as a tribute to Wenchuan’s victims.\u00a0 We saw those.\u00a0 People are resilient, perhaps even more so in Wenchuan.\u00a0 You can read more about what we saw in Wenchuan and elsewhere in China in Riding China<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Earlier Phavorite Photos?\u00a0 You bet!\u00a0 Click on each to get their story.<\/p>\n

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