Afghan Center is her monument to her great love

Nancy Dupree, an American now in her 80s, came to Kabul in the 1960s and never left. She has just opened a research library/museum called the Afghan Center at Kabul University. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Nov. 27, 2013 6:59 AM PT

Nancy Hatch Dupree’s center at Kabul University is a tribute to her late husband, archaeologist Louis Dupree, and a gift to Afghanistan, where they had met.