Posted on 05/06/2021 7:23:04 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
yes. my dad mentioned that too.
I often wonder that so many of my forbears have had such strangely interesting and sometimes exciting lives, while my own has been pretty nondescript.
But maybe some of us are meant to simply appreciate, value, and remember.
The VALUES are what matters out of any generation. Holding on to those - when they are worthy - and communicating them into the future, is a very important job.
Amen Jamestown.
I did a communications project when in college on the ‘Secret Signs of Hobos’. Source Coronet magazine sometime during the 1960’s
Definitions: Bum=Drinks and doesn’t work and doesn’t travel;
Tramp=Drinks and travels, doesn’t work,
Hobo=works and travels.
As they traveled around, Hobos left secret signs for others to follow and make things easier .
I saw a video yesterday that dealt in ‘hobo signs’, and that’s what reminded me of my father’s connection with the ‘hoboes union’.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a25174860/hobo-code/
wait, you have a neighbor who was attending britt in the thirties who is still alive? can you possibly put them in touch with me? i know a lot of people in that world who would be interested in talking to them.
i know a lot of people who are in that world who would love to talk to someone who was attending the britt convention in that era. is your neighbor internet savvy?
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