Temporary shelters

 

The people who live on the road.

Gypsy Camp 28th July 1951. Gypsy children play happily in overcrowded encampment at Corke's Meadow, Kent. Photo by Bert Hardy.

Fun with old photos for a new month...Sepia Saturday collections start with three guys in a pup-tent. They don't really look at all happy.

Browning, Montana. ca 1910

 Migrant Camp 1935 by Dorothea Lange

From "Time Travelers"

Four families ---- three of them related ---- with fifteen children. They told Dorothea Lange they were fleeing from the Dust Bowl in Texas. She photographed them at their overnight camp on a roadside near Calipatria, California in 1937.

Hershey Region AACA antique auto club of America

Ojibway family

Sharing with Sepia Saturday

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Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. Why? Because it is all we ever have.

PEMA CHÖDRÖN

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From Peter Turnley on FB:

The last time the US encouraged the Kurds to overthrow a government.

In February and March of 1991, President Bush encouraged the Iraqi Kurds to rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein.

 In March 1991, following a failed uprising against Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War, over 1 million Iraqi Kurds fled to the borders of Turkey and Iran to escape brutal retaliation.

Roughly 500,000 refugees became stranded in the mountains on the Turkish border, suffering from exposure, hunger, and disease.

All photos here by Peter Turnley

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By Helena Nelson Reid