Hobo Tale Brought Back Memory of Adventure
Evansville Courier & Press (2007-Current) › June 25, 2009
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William Nix of Evansville read my recent story about the late Rudy Phillips, the one-time hobo from Shawneetown, Ill. It reminded the 85-year-old Nix of when he rode the rails.
"It was 1939 at the end of the Great Depression. My stepbrother, Harold Perton, and I were 16 years old and lived on a produce farm near the small town of Woodburn, Ore. In mid-June, with the fruit harvest over, we were hungry for adventure. We chose to hop the long freight train to Britt, Iowa, where we had lived before.See the full content of this document
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Hobo Tale Brought Back Memory of Adventure
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