He is forty-one, married, has three daughters. He works a forty-hour, five-day week, with occasional overtime. He has a crew of three laborers. “I usually get up at five-fifteen. I get to the city parking lot, you check the oil, your water level, then proceed for the ward yard. I meet the men, we...
… I’ve been layin’ in a hard rock jail, I thought you knowd I’ve been laid out ninety days Way down the road. The darned old judge, he said to me, It’s ninety days for vagrancy, And I’ve been doin’ some hard travelin’, Lord. —Woody Guthrie20 Ed Paulsen From 1926 on, when he was fourteen, he, hims...