What a day at Jonestown was actually like is the thing most accounts skip, and it is what survivors most often want said. There was a school with a curriculum, a band that rehearsed, a basketball team, a library, a nursery, and elderly residents who had come out of San Francisco boarding houses and had, for the first time in years, medical care and three meals. There was also eleven hours of agricultural work six days a week on rice, beans and gravy, dormitories that separated families, public discipline meetings, and armed guards on the perimeter whose stated job was keeping enemies out. Two-thirds of the residents were Black, about a quarter were children and roughly a fifth were over sixty-five. Both halves of that description were true on the same Tuesday.