Halloween in Haiti

Paul E. Fallon
5 min readOct 31, 2019

Graham Green slept here

Last Halloween I stayed in Haiti’s most famous hotel — Hotel Olaffson. It was a fitting end to several years of reconstruction work that began by sleeping in tents after the 2010 earthquake, moving up to dorms, and eventually staying in buildings I helped design and construct. Celebrating our small success amidst the revelers at the Olaffson was fitting, even if I didn’t get much sleep.

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