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Patrick McLaughlin

To learn about the mainstream culture of an era, it helps to look at the vagrants and nomads who have dropped out of it: the tramps of the Gilded Age; the beatniks of the 1950s. Today they are called crusties, gutter punks, or the voluntary homeless—but they often refer to themselves simply as travelers. Is there a specific word you’d use to describe yourself? Not really. Traveler, hobo, dirty kid. I don’t really like to consider myself any of them because then you’re classifying something that’s kind of hard to classify. I started out when I was a teenager. I had kind of a rough home life. I started living in squats and met a lot of other travelers. I realized that I could get out and go see places just by riding trains or hitchhiking. And I just kept with it. psmag/navigation/books-and-culture/crusties-gutter-punks-travelers-whatever-dont-call-homeless-89243/?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:18:50 +0000

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