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	Hoovervilles During the Great Depression
		These people had no choice but to seek alternative forms of shelter.
		Hoovervilles, named after President Hoover, who was blamed for the problems that led to the depression, sprung up throughout the United States.
		In what ways do you think life changed for people who lost their jobs, life savings, and homes, and ended up living in Hoovervilles?
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/depwwii/depress/hoovers.html (174 words)

	Musicals.Net :: View topic - Hooverville!
		Hoovervilles were little shanty towns made up in 1930's depression hit america.
		Basically, it's a little slice of unpleasant American history that depicts a group of formerly well-off people who lost everything in the stock market crash of 1929, and are now living on the street in makeshift "towns" made out of old boxes and garbage.
		I love the Hooverville song, and I was so disappointed that they didn't put it in the new Disney version of Annie, because it was so much closer to the stage show.
	www.musicals.net /forums/viewtopic.php?t=50420&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight= (0 words)

	Raleigh Americana Band: Bluegrass, Country, Americana (Raleigh, NC) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Hooverville blend bluegrass, classic country and old-time influences to create their own timeless American sound.
		Hooverville has shared billing with such nationally touring acts at The Lonesome River Band, Ralph Stanley, Chip Robinson of the Backsliders, Bill Hicks (a founding member of the Red Clay Ramblers), and Trailer Bride.
		The trio's tight harmony vocals and broad acoustic instrumentation move seamlessly through a variety of American musical traditions while retaining a lyrical style that is distinctly Hooverville.
	www.larryweaver.com /entertainment/artists/default.asp?artist=hooverville (0 words)

	Home Sweet Home - Life in Hooverville
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		But a crisis like the Depression had never before hit the U.S. Millions were jobless.
	www.edhelper.com /ReadingComprehension_35_166.html (246 words)

	NWsource: Venue details - Hooverville
		Everything about Hooverville evokes bygone times, from the bar's vintage sign and iron-clad windows to the fl-and-white 1930s photos from the Museum of History and Industry.
		To hang out at this Seattle watering hole is to soak up a miniature history lesson whilst sipping down a beer or two (or slinging back one of the bar's popular Old Fashioneds or Manhattans).
		Much like the wide spectrum of libations, Hooverville's clientele is also all across the board-in a good way.
	www.nwsource.com /ae/scr/edb_vd.cfm?ven=34550&s=nws (204 words)

	Hang Right Politics » Hooverville
		Filed in: Hooverville, Uncategorized by Republicanpundit at 08:23 on May 20th, 2007
		Filed in: Hooverville, Media Bias, The Pinocchio Press, Economy by COgirl at 12:23 on Mar 9th, 2007
		Filed in: Hooverville, Economy by COgirl at 18:57 on Oct 26th, 2006
	hangrightpolitics.com /category/hooverville (2575 words)

	Hooverville!
		Basically, it's a little slice of unpleasant American history that depicts a group of formerly well-off people who lost everything in the stock market crash of 1929, and are now living on the street in makeshift "towns" made out of old boxes and garbage.
		I love the Hooverville song, and I was so disappointed that they didn't put it in the new Disney version of Annie, because it was so much closer to the stage show.
		Hoovervilles, named after President Hoover, who was blamed for the problems that led to the depression, sprung up throughout the United States.
	musicals.net /forums/archive.php/hooverville__o_t__t_50420.html (876 words)

	Real Change News
		The settlement was born of poverty and the failure of society to respond to massive unemployment.
		Hooverville residents made something out of nothing, surviving for ten years as a successful self-managed community.
		For all its shortcomings, Hooverville proved the power of homeless people to manage their own affairs, with some vacant land and minimal support, through ten years of Hard Times.
	www.realchangenews.org /pastarticles/features/articles/fea_hooverville1.html (1148 words)

	Daily Tar Heel - Hooverville a dusty, dismal mess
		On Hooverville's second album, Follow That Trail of Dust Back Home, the Americana-steeped quartet is out to give country with a conscience a lift of folksy rock, bluegrass roots and honky-tonk.
		While the members of Hooverville haven't written songs that are unlistenable or downright bad, they have written songs that melt into a single-themed country drone.
		Hooverville wants to conjure up the country music of years gone by, and never makes it clear why they want to do that.
	www.dailytarheel.com /home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=3f85233d-fa9b-4f5b-9e92-7357dcbc4b92 (344 words)

	HistoryLink Essay:Now & Then -- Seattle's Hooverville during the Great Depression
		Hooverville was one of several shantytowns in King County inhabited by people who had fallen on hard times during the Great Depression.
		Savings spent, he came to Hooverville in the fall of 1932 to make that community his home." He was primarily a "rustler," scrounging for materials to build and maintain his shack and "bumming food from grocery stores." He was white, single, over 40 and a "shovel stiff" or unskilled laborer.
		Roy noted that Hooverville was a rare social "air pocket" in which the normal impersonality of city living had not "choked out the flowers of open, unaffected friendliness toward fellow men.
	www.historylink.org /essays/printer_friendly/index.cfm?file_id=2581 (842 words)

	www.myspace.com/hoovervillerabbitsfoot
		Hoovervilles new album, Follow That Trail of Dust Back Home, spotlights the singing and writing talents of the bands three lead vocalists, recalling other rootsy group efforts like The Band, The Flatlanders, and Uncle Tupelo.
		To capture the sound Hooverville envisioned, the pace was unhurried and the atmosphere was more akin to a front porch jam.
		Hooverville brought in local musicians and friends not only to fill out the album musically but also to have fun.
	www.myspace.com /hoovervillerabbitsfoot (1788 words)

	Real Change News
		Like a quarter of the people living in Hooverville, "Jack" as he was called, had worked in the Pacific Northwest timber industry.
		Unlike 90% of Hooverville residents, who had less than an 8th grade education, Jack had a degree from Sam Houston Normal School (the equivalent of a junior college specializing in training teachers) and had taught school.
		According to his own account, he received mail from people all over the country who had read about Hooverville and its "mayor." He responded to inquiries, some from families trying to find lost relatives, and tried to educate his correspondents about what had brought people to shanty life.
	www.realchangenews.org /pastarticles/features/articles/fea_hooverville2.html (1148 words)

	Seattle Municipal Archives Hoovervilles Jesse Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: )
		One of the new members is the writer, who perhaps is no different from the other, but was soon being called 'Hooverville's Mayor." The new committee set about a more rigid enforcement of regulations and was ably supported by the city authorities.
		When Hooverville was started in 1931 the business houses in this part of town were pretty hostile to us.
		....I am mentioning our residents as men, because Hooverville is in the main sense the abode of "forgotten men." The city authorities have decreed that neither women nor children would be permitted to live here, so no more than a dozen elderly women, and no children, have ever lived here.
	clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us /~public/doclibrary/JJackson.htm (955 words)

	Metro Magazine
		Hooverville finds its genesis in the meeting of Hanson and Bemis-kindred souls who grew up in vastly different regions and got up with each other in the Triangle.
		Hooverville will be doing a house concert in Hillsborough April 8, and they'll be performing during the Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival of Music and Dance, April 20-23, in Silk Hope, NC.
		Also note that at Shakori Hills, Hooverville will also be performing a set with Katherine Whalen, a founding member of Squirrel Nut Zippers, an accomplished jazz singer and, according to Hanson, also a fine singer of Americana tunes.
	www.metronc.com /article/?id=1050 (1384 words)

	Rambles: Hooverville, Follow That Trail of Dust Back Home (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A hooverville was a Depression-era squatters' shack named in sarcastic honor of Herbert Hoover, in the White House in 1929 when the economy collapsed and left the Great Depression in its wreckage.
		The title could have graced an ironically intended composition by Woody Guthrie, in whose songs the trail of dust led, as it did in the real lives of his fellow Okies, in the opposite direction.
		Hooverville co-produces with the dependably downhome-savvy James (Jimbo) Mathus.
	www.rambles.net /hooverv_trail06.html (370 words)

	Independent Weekly: Music: Record Reviews: Hooverville
		And because the band sports three vocalists/songwriters--acoustic guitarist John Bemis (Hooverville's main voice and pen), multi-instrumentalist Greg Hanson, and upright bassist Paul Dowds--you get a pair in navy, a pair in khaki, and a pair in gray.
		But that's not to say there aren't touches that reflect a bit of flare, from Jen Gunderman's accordion on three tunes and the distant harmonies on "Another Sweet Dawn" to the fiddle on "Carrying this Heartache" carefully approximating the sound of love lost.
		Hooverville plays a house concert at Down Yonder Farm in Hillsborough on April 8 and at the Pittsboro General Store on April 10.
	www.indyweek.com /gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:30034 (508 words)

	Virtual NYC Tour: Central Park (Hooverville,)
		The government did not officially recognize these Hoovervilles and occasionally removed the occupants for technically trespassing on private lands.
		The word "Hooverville" is a spin on the last name of the 31st President of the United States during the beginning of the Depression, Herbert Hoover.
		Some of the men who were forced to live in these conditions possessed building skills and were able to build their houses out of stone.
	www.virtualnyctour.com /movingMap1.php?trailName=centralPark:65:1 (168 words)

	Duck On Bike: Hooverville (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Texan Paul Dowds is the newest addition to the Hooverville line-up.
		The trio's tight harmony vocals and broad acoustic instrumentation move seamlessly through a variety of American musical traditions while retaining a lyrical styte that is distinctly Hooverville.
		Lucky Rabbit's Foot reflects the first two years of Hooverville and offers a sampling of their original material.
	www.duckonbike.com /artistinfo.asp?artistid=317&source=P (348 words)

	hooverville productions
		Hooverville Productions - a New York based company - is dedicated to the cultivation of new and established work from innovative artists.
		As we continue to evolve as an organization, we are committed to providing the most comprehensive support network for our creative associates.
		Ultimately - Hooverville Productions will nurture and inform a new generation of artists and audiences whose unique American experience will contribute a new chapter to our itinerant, rail-riding history.
	www.hoovervilleproductions.com (189 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The location of the Hooverville was south of the Municipal Bridge near Rutger Street extending at least to Chouteau Street.
		Louis Daily Globe-Democrat in 1935, the population of the Hooverville had risen to 3,000 inhabitants, who occupied at least 500 buildings on the river's edge.
		June 1935 proved to be devastating for most of the Hooverville inhabitants when the Mississippi River flooded and left a trail of destruction as far west as St. Charles.
	www.umsl.edu /~virtualstl/phase2/1930/buildings/hooverville.htm (191 words)

	Life Behind Bars
		Hooverville, located adjacent to the Premier nightclub on First Avenue South, has many pondering its "run-down elegant" origins, say owners Billy Kincaid and Todd Gean.
		Everything about Hooverville evokes those bygone times, from the bar's vintage sign and iron-clad windows to the fl-and-white 1930s photos from the Museum of History and Industry.
		Hooverville patrons quickly learn to appreciate the fact that shantytowns are a thing of the past.
	blog.nwsource.com /lifebehindbars/archives/hooverville_040406.html (867 words)

	Indie-Music.com - Hooverville ~ Follow That Trail of Dust Back Home (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I can also attest to the musical accomplishment of the song itself, with lilting fiddle and harmonies from the boys.
		Far from being impoverished, this Hooverville is rich with musical history, texture and talent.
		With no depression in sight, this Hooverville was built to house some excellent country tunes...
	www.indie-music.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=4861 (295 words)

	Streetscapes: Central Park's 'Hooverville'; Life Along 'Depression Street' - New York Times
		But the episode of the encampment at the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, demolished by the city on Aug. 17, recalls the "Hooverville" of shacks housing more than a score of homeless people in the emptied Central Park Reservoir in 1931-1933.
		The stock-market crash of October 1929 occurred just as the large rectangular reservoir in Central Park north of Belvedere Castle was being taken out of service.
		When the East River colony was cleared in 1933 (with 10 days' notice) "old John Cahill" told a reporter: "Nobody's askin' us where we're goin'.
	query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE2DF113AF93AA1575BC0A965958260 (707 words)

	Hooverville Rounders- Who are those guys?
		The Hooverville Rounders are a band of seasoned professional musicians(you know…uh…baby boomers).
		They have also been invited to contribute to an upcoming tribute to the late musician Buddy Blue, and are in the process of recording their own debut CD.
		A Hooverville Rounders show is a combination of solid musicianship, tight vocal harmonies, and an entertaining stage show.
	www.hoovervillerounders.com /band.htm (611 words)

	Bacon Press: Los Hooverville del Taco Trucks
		About a few blocks away from the county jail, and surrounded by bail bondsmen storefronts, was a little strip of 8th Street in which 6 taco trucks were lined up side by side with their backs towards the train tracks that run through the southern part of town.
		After we were done, we drove by Los Hooverville del Taco Trucks and threw some firecrackers out of the window just for fun.
		Unlike Los Hooverville del Taco Trucks, the trucks on Crow's Landing Road were not circled together, like a Western wagon train fending off the hordes of hostile gringos, but were spread out along the stretch of the 4-lane-wide thoroughfare.
	baconpress.blogspot.com /2005/04/los-hooverville-del-taco-trucks.html (2136 words)

	www.myspace.com/hoovervillerounders
		Merle Haggard on acid sitting in with a bluegrass band at a hootenanny on the Mississippi Delta in 1939
		If Bakersfield had a delta, and that delta had a sound, it might sound something like the Hooverville Rounders.
		The Hooverville Rounders are an acoustic band drawing from diverse influences, including bluegrass, folk, gospel, country, rock, blues, honky-tonk, Tex-Mex, Cajun, and whatever else we're feelin' at the time.
	www.myspace.com /hoovervillerounders (1126 words)

	MOHAI (Site not responding. Last check: )
		During the Depression of the 1930s, over 600 unemployed and homeless people lived in shacks just south of the downtown area, on the site of an abandoned shipyard.
		This area was known as Hooverville, named after the American president whom many people blamed for causing the Depression.
		This photo, taken by James P. Lee in October 1931, shows a number of Hooverville shacks near South Massachusetts Street.
	www.seattlehistory.org /photo_database/photo_preview.cfm?photoid=7357 (158 words)

	Web-Based Thematic Unit
		What's a Hooverville and why were they found throughout the United States in the Great Depression?
		Visualize what life was like in a Hooverville in the 1930s.
		There were many reasons that people were forced out of their homes and into Hoovervilles.
	eduscapes.com /reading/bud/activity3.htm (329 words)

	CD Baby: HOOVERVILLE: Follow That Trail of Dust Back Home
		In the tradition of the Band, and the Flatlanders, Hooverville has three singers and three songwriters and moves through a range of song stylings and sounds.
		While Hooverville crosses the vast terrain of American music '" bluegrass, old-time folk, blues, and roots rock '" their primary love of Classic Country shines at the core of Follow That Trail.
		The band created lasting hits in the North Carolina music scene with songs like the murder ballad “Alston Lynn” and the tensely waltzing “Fairly Good Man.” Their songs have been covered by other recording artists and still see heavy rotation on WUNC Radio’s weekly Americana music program, Back Porch Music.
	cdbaby.com /cd/hooverville (878 words)

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