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Indian Plume (For Crazy Horse)
Crazy Horse stole his first wife. Black Buffalo Woman was married to another man named No Water. Crazy Horse just up and stole her and, in ...
The Healer
In a conversation I had years ago with the late, great bluesman John Lee Hooker, I asked him about his song, The Healer. He cocked his head an...
Hudson King
There was no shortage of hobos in New York City during The Depression. Along the Hudson River, there were were hobo jungles almost the full len...
The Orange Beast
"A train is not a man, and a man is not a train. . .”
George Milburn, The Hobo’s Hornbook
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To live outdoors during The Depression was to h...
Sister of the Road
Nobody knows if there was such a person as “Boxcar Bertha.” Dr. Ben Reitman wrote her “as told to” memoir in 1937 and the feeling is that she w...
The Road Hawk
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In Timothy Egan’s, The Worst Hard Time, a riveting account of the horrors of the dustbowl and The Great Depression, dust storms are rendere...
The Red Road
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I elected not to go to the art fairs in New York this week. I actually haven’t been going to them for a while now and I don’t miss them. ...
The Hobo King
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I had an odd experience the other day. I had accepted an invitation to be a speaker at the SEA (Self-Employment in the Arts) conference out...
The Quiet Dust
“They scraped and planted and prayed and saved. . .then the black blizzards would come and take it all away. . .and the banks moved in like vultur...
The Town Without Mercy
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In Timothy Egan’s, The Worst Hard Time, the dustbowl tragedy of the 30’s is chronicled in painstaking and heartbreaking detail. The ‘Okies...
Toward a Glowing Light
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After my last hobo missive, my friend Paul Sanchez, the marvelous New Orleans songwriter and historian, gave me the lowdown on a song called...
A Blue-Eyed Story
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My mother is 83 years old. She will be pissed that I’ve told everyone this. She is a child of The Depression. Her mother was widowed when...
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