3/16/87 – 12/28/10 Nikki Pack talked fast, so fast that when she got excited, it was hard to understand what she was saying. She was spontaneous too, ready to go off to the next adventure at the slightest suggestion of fun and, according to friends, a great traveling companion. It was pretty hard to dampen … Nikki Pack
“There was something about Justin, he would just draw you in,” said Jamie Hogshooter, Justin Lutz’s four-months-younger cousin. They spent their summers and many weekends together on the family farm in Rolla, Missouri next to the Ozark Mountains in the Eastern part of the state. “I didn’t like to play army or Indians, but Justin … Justin Lutz
Reade Charles, the man who took the photo of the traveling kids toasting in the gondola car, tracked me down and told me the story behind that image.
Kozmo, a long-time resident of the squat called Termite and Vine, describes the philosophy underneath his community’s “raccoon lifestyle” which is supported by the ideal of community yet founded on nihilism.
Why get your food out of dumpsters? Why place your life in such danger? An interview with two young women in their squat in New Orleans where they answer these questions.
In this new style of reporting in public, I feel free to expose my bias and my emotions in a way I’ve not indulged in other journalism.