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friends. And then we had -- is it a merienda? A sort of afternoon recention. It was all done in Spanish style in an ancient building near the Alamc right on the same grounds where we had the most delicious chocelate with cinnmon and whipped cream and God knows what all -- devastating things -- and some suparb pastries that I'd never seen before. Then we visited the Alamo and then went back to a very pretty house that belongs to the University of Texas and got dressed in evening clothes and went to a celebration of a mass, a modern celebration of a mass in an 18th century mission that's still in San Antonio.

Q:

A Spanist mission.

Lasker:

A Spanish mission with a lovely baroque acade and a modern priest speaking in English. Children would come bringing gifts to the altar dressed in Mexican costumes with a Mexican band.

Q:

A marimba band?

Lasker:

A marimba band. There was the deception after the dedication of the fountain; then there was this mass about 6:30. That lasted until about 7:30, and then there was a granary that had been used by the priaste. It was in stone, a lovely kind of honey-colored stone, a large granary, which was used to have about 80





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