Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Blossoms of hope wilt away - Seattle Times
When I first met Jeff Alexander, I wanted to talk about his lot in life — how he came to be panhandling under the Ballard Bridge and living out of an old truck. He wanted to talk about flowers. It was a couple of days before Christmas. I was writing about Seattle's 'rolling slum,' a loose colony of 50 to 100 homeless folks who camp in lower Ballard in their trailers, vans, buses and cars. ...
Here's a link to the earlier column, If car-camping colonyisn't news, then times are worse than we think
When I first met Jeff Alexander, I wanted to talk about his lot in life — how he came to be panhandling under the Ballard Bridge and living out of an old truck. He wanted to talk about flowers. It was a couple of days before Christmas. I was writing about Seattle's 'rolling slum,' a loose colony of 50 to 100 homeless folks who camp in lower Ballard in their trailers, vans, buses and cars. ...
Here's a link to the earlier column, If car-camping colonyisn't news, then times are worse than we think
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