GOBABIS, Namibia | For a few cents and a piece of bread, Marieta van der Merwe persuaded a man on a dusty Namibian road to give her the thin vervet monkey he held by a rope around its neck.

Classmate remembers Ford as ‘just Gerry’ 
Grace Crawford keeps a 1981 snapshot of President Gerald R. Ford and herself in her bedroom. To Crawford, it’s more of a sentimental keepsake than a freeze-frame of history, a simple memento of her 50th high school reunion.

The group’s tough love helped clean up a methamphetamine user.

The group’s tough love helped clean up a methamphetamine user.

Football injury leads Wyatt to new passion 
Tyler Wyatt had just moved to the area from Maryland, and he was looking for a job when he stumbled upon G.T. Bray park.