Kanakan is a small village in southern iran East and a little South of the town of Fasa. (I would be obliged if someone sent me the map coordinates because I can't accurately find it on Google). The house was that of the village elder until his death in the 1970s. I stayed there for a while in 1967 and again in 1971 when the old man was still alive. Then the house was alive with activity and there was plenty of water for the date palms, citrus groves, pomegranite bushes and cotton. At sometime, I think towards the middle of the seventys the water dried up. Even much earlier water was being pumped from deep wells by diesels. There a few people living there, mostly older relatives of successful professionals who live in town. Tehran. Shiraz and nearby Fasa.