Nomads Love Tents

{See also: tent show revivalism, placeless living}

and why wouldnt they really? tents rule

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3 Reader Responses

1. Julia Says:
   November 8th, 2007 at 10:32 pm

   http://www.tolatsga.org/ill.html

   This article is pretty dense and may not be what you’re referring to but it’s good history.

2. Julia Says:
   November 8th, 2007 at 11:02 pm

   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Workers_of_the_World

   This organization had a lot to do with Hobo culture.

   http://www.iww.org/en/store/books/kerr

   These are good book recommendations even thought I’m plugging my Grandfather, Jack Sheridan, who wrote one of the articles.

3. p Says:
   November 9th, 2007 at 5:12 pm

   The Wobblies and pre-IWW anarchists/trade unionist history are really interesting. I got interested in them through references in Pynchon’s ‘Against the Day’ and Ken Kesey’s ‘Sometimes a Great Notion’.