Jones’s Egypt travelogue at library to focus on donkeys and monuments

Helping people by helping their working animals was the focus of Janet and David Jones’s recent trip to Egypt. But the pair also had the opportunity to visit the country’s monuments and engineering feats, from the Sphinx to the Aswan High Dam.

“A Journey through Egypt” will be the topic of a travelogue featuring photographs and commentary by Janet Jones at 7 p.m. Thursday, January 28, at the Asheboro library. The program, sponsored by the Friends of the Library, is free and the public is invited.

David Jones, director of the North Carolina Zoological Park, has been associated for many years with the Brooke Hospital for Animals. The charity sees to the health of working equines — mostly donkeys and horses — thereby helping some of the neediest people in the world.

The hospital’s 75th anniversary in the land where it was founded was the purpose of the visit.

“We had a fascinating trip, using the mornings to visit local clinics and go out with the mobile clinics to the villages, to treat donkeys and some horses, and then visiting ancient monuments and temples in the afternoons,” Janet Jones says.