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Hobo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia National Hobo Convention, held in Britt, Iowa by the Hobo Foundation A hobo is a member of a distinctive sub-culture (hoboism) of homeless, traveling workers in the United States. It was most popular during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is particularly associated with the railroads, as hobos have the reputation for freighthopping – hitching free rides from place to place in the baggage cars of trains. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hobo

Hobo Convention The National Hobo Convention will be attended by current hoboes, those who hoboed earlier in their lives, and many stationary folks who appreciate the personal freedom symbolized by the hobo lifestyle. The term "hobo" was probably derived from "hoe-boy," an appropriate description for the migrant farm workers around the turn of the century who often toted their own tools wherever they traveled. Hoboism boomed again during the Great Depression as people hit the road in search of sustenance. www.factmonster.com /spot/hobo.html

DesMoinesRegister.com News "Adman," a hobo from Minneapolis and spokesman for the National Hobo Society, said he sees the cultural gap but has hope for the new generation of rail-riders. Hobos now pitch their Eddie Bauer tents on the grassy lawn of Hobo Jungle Park and park their vans in the shade of maple trees. With his hobo wanderlust satisfied, "Preacher Steve," the self-proclaimed evangelist and grizzled veteran of 28 years of rail riding, was ready to settle down. desmoinesregister.com /news/stories/c4788998/21975332.html

National Hobo Convention, Britt, IA - 1984 National Hobo Convention, Britt, IA In August of 1984 I made my third trip out to Britt, Iowa to see the National Hobo Convention. Friends I had met during the last two conventions, Hobo Bill and Mountain Dew, had already passed away, but I hooked up with El Paso Kid in South Saint Paul and we rode down to Mason City together, then hitched over to Britt. I kept a few copies of the Britt News-Tribune that featured photos of the Convention and stuffed them in my pack before we left to hitch back to Mason City and head up to the Twin Cities to get on the High Line back to California. www.northbankfred.com /britt_84.html

"The Mulligan of Happiness" by Lila Colloton The National Queen Hobo for last year was a woman named Mama Jo who came from Blue Spring, MO. She is an outreach worker for the homeless in Kansas City, MO and Kansas City KS. Many of the hobos spoke to the youth and were eager to share their experiences and also stress the danger of hopping a freight train today. The Hobo Parade was Saturday Aug. 14th and I was invited to ride on 'Serenity's' float as a clown. www.wxan.net /hobopage.html

KNLS American Highway, Page One The National Hobo Convention held each summer in Brit, Iowa. The hobos are more than obliging, inviting their guests to participate in a number of hobo traditions, including the annual selection of a new hobo king and queen. Some of them are hobos and hobo all year and some that just hobo the week they are here in Brit, or the want-to-be hobos. www.knls.org /English/trascripts/hiway001.htm

Merriam-Webster Online As the 105th National Hobo Convention gets underway in Britt, Iowa, we’re joining in the celebration of that mythologized American traveling worker by looking at just what distinguishes a hobo from a tramp from a bum. Hobo names a migratory worker, while a tramp is a vagrant, one who has no established residence and who wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support. Here’s a shorthand way of distinguishing between the three: a hobo works and likes to travel; a tramp likes to travel but not work; and a bum likes neither work nor travel. www.m-w.com /cgi-bin/wftwarch.pl?081105

American Profile: 7/15/2001 - 7/21/2001: Britt, IA Hoboes, townspeople, and visitors gather in Hobo Jungle Park during the National Hobo Convention. The foundation maintains Hobo Jungle Park, a corner of Evergreen Cemetery, where hoboes such as Hardrock Kid and Mt. Dew are buried, and the National Hobo Museum, which is housed in the former Chief Theater. Then, the reigning hobo king and queen step forward to greet attendees and townspeople, and the convention is officially under way. www.americanprofile.com /issues/20010715/20010715mid_1065.asp

Tourist Union 63 In August of each year Tourist Union #63 held a National Hobo Convention to renew friendships, collect annual dues, sign up new members, and honor the most deserving of their union to the temporary positions of King, Queen, Crown Prince, Crown Princess, and Grand Head Pipe. During the 1887 convention, held on the banks of St. Louis on what would someday become the Gateway Arch National Park, the convening members voted on Chicago as their next convention location. Thru the mid to later 1800's the Convention of Tourist Union #63 was held in a different city of the USA to appease to every region of the nation that it's members originated, and to enlist new members thereby gaining more political support for the legitimacy of the union. www.hobo.com /tourist_union.htm

maundythursday "In August of 1900 more than 250 hobos, tramps and freeloaders came by train to a little northwest Iowa town for their first annual National Hobo Convention. All sorts of conventions happen across this vast country each day, but the annual Hobo Convention at Britt is different, they didn't deserve it, ask for it or encourage it. The Hobos of Britt, the orphan boy with a piece of lining in his pocket and the friendship of Christ and others are all present here in each of us, as as we come to eat and drink, to partake of bread and wine, body and blood. www.dodgenet.com /~tzingale/sermonc/maundythursday.html

Northwest Herald - Online The title will be awarded, by applause from locals and fellow hobos, this weekend at the annual National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa. The hobo jungle, that is – the term hobos of yesteryear and today use for their gatherings along train tracks and beyond. Women hobos, men, young, old, are not easy to spot, except maybe for their penchant for caps and their universal wanderlust. www.nwherald.com /CommunitySection/282085047960859.php

Books and Articles on Hoboes An account of the many hoboes who traveled from all over the country to honor their departed buddies at the Hobo Cemetery and reminisce about the so-called dying tradition of the hobo at the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa. Comerford commented on the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, and the traditions that surround it including the annual election of a King and Queen of the Hoboes. The events of the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa are discussed: the Hobo King and Queen Elections, parade, art fairs, carnival rides, games, races, music, poetry and story-telling, flea markets, and more. www.angelfire.com /folk/famoustramp/reference.html

City Pages - River Rats Trampfest was mounted as a repudiation of the National Hobo Convention, a gathering of train riders past and present that takes place each August in Britt, Iowa, home to the Hobo Museum and a hobo cemetery. Many were put off by the convention in Britt last year because of what they saw as police harassment, lack of financial support from the town, and outright fraud in the annual election of the King and Queen of the Hobos. The rationale for the alternative-hobo convention in St. Paul was laid out in a zine called Hobocore that circulated among train riders. citypages.com /databank/21/1030/article8929.asp

Cigar Box Guitars The 104th NATIONAL HOBO CONVENTION is held the first full weekend in August every year in Britt, Iowa. There is free camping in the "National Hobo Jungle" next to the Britt mainline, and Britt has a carnival, a huge party atmosphere, and a whole lot of area cops to go along with the nightly concerts in the jungle. People begin to gather a week or so in advance (especially those tramps that "ride in" on trains) and congregate at Mary Jo's Hobo House restaurant and the National Hobo Museum on Britt's main street. www.cigarboxguitars.com /comments.php?id=50_0_1_0_C

National Hobo Convention, Britt, IA, USA Although rumors have been purporting the extinction of the American hobo for the last century -- due to railroad mergers, new car designs and beefed-up railyard security -- they are alive, and for the most part well, at least at the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, which dates all the way back to 1900. This is also where hobos pitch their duct-taped tents, tie their tarps between two trees or just sack-out for the night on a box under the stars. Since hobos are one of the last authentic American breeds, the news media is often out in force to catch a glimpse of these yesteryear roustabouts. www.2camels.com /festival75.php3

OHNS: Latest News & Events The National Hobo Convention was kicked off this year on Monday, August 5th, by Mayor Jim Nelson with the city council donating three lots of land to the Hobo Foundation. Other early makers of hobo nickels, who were prolific carvers and made pieces of a distinctive style, have been nicknamed (with their nickname put in quotes.) There are other early makers who signed their hobo nickels with their name or initials, but only one or two specimens are known by these artists. She related how the hobos had supported her in the loss of her son who is now buried in the Hobo Cemetery. www.hobonickels.org /news.htm

Britt, Iowa - Hobo Museum A museum dedicated to the hobo life and the National Hobo Convention held each year in this town. The Hobo convention is the second week in August. Hobo Jungle is a public park with an old railroad boxcar, where hobos and hobo wannabes can hang out. www.roadsideamerica.com /tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==3542

UTU: News Phillips was crowned King of the Hobos at the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa, an event that began in 1900 when a group of hobos from Chicago who called themselves Tourists Union No. 63 began convening there. In his later life, he passed out cards defining a hobo as a man who travels to work; a tramp as a man who travels and won't work, and a bum as a man who won't work. HARRISBURG, Ill. -- Rambling Rudy Phillips, who spent his teenage years hopping freight trains to everywhere and nowhere and lived to become one of America's last and best-known Depression-era hobos, died on Jan. 9 in Harrisburg, Ill., according to this report by Douglas Martin published by the New York Times. www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=11483

Salon Obituary Irving "Fishbones" Stevens Stevens was named King of the Hobos in 1988 at the annual National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa. At the 1993 convention, he crowned his daughter as Queen of the Hobos. Stevens' first book, "Fishbones, Hoboing in the 1930s," published in the 1980s, contained more than a dozen stories based on his recollections of his life on the road. www.salon.com /people/obit/1999/05/06/stevens/print.html

Locomotive General Civil War Museum Interactive Tour - Kennesaw Hobo Yes, Kennesaw was represented at the National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa and the East Coast Hobo Gathering in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. Many of these Veteran Hobos never settled after the war and were destined to travel the rest of their lives on the Rails. If a hobo settled in one area along a line and began a family he was refered to as a "HomeGuard". www.locomotivegeneral.com /hobo.html

HOBO_WESTBOUND.html Hobos in 1988, at the annual National Hobo Convention King of the Hobos, a high-school dropout who became a doctor. Maine for his tales of hobo life in the 1930s and his www.geocities.com /hobotramp/HOBO_WESTBOUND.html

Hobo Poetry Around the Jungle Fire II It'll take you to the heart of hobo life faster than any hotshot freight!!" --Santa Fe Bo, Founder and Director of the National Hobo Association, Director of Compass In the Blood The hoboes themselves, and several of their friends, speak authentically and vividly through one of their favorite media--poetry. Published in 1994 (44 pages), this collection of original hobo poetry captures the thrills and the heartaches of being a hobo. home.indy.rr.com /evanwi/hobo.htm

One More Train to Ride Cliff Williams (Oats) has been a "hobo at heart" since 1990, when he attended his first National Hobo Convention in Britt, Iowa. Their connections with the past make the experiences of these hoboes even more striking, as they ride freight trains and jungle up in hobo camps, light years away from the 21st-century cyberworld—yet touching the very core of American freedom and individualism. He chose his hobo moniker because he eats rolled oats with milk and honey for breakfast. www.indiana.edu /~iupress/books/0-253-34368-2.shtml

Hobo Links Everyone connected with the Hobo community know who Larry is and the lucky one have heard him perform at Gatherings, Britt's Hobo Convention or just plain Jam Sessions. The purpose is to operate a railway museum in Danbury, CT, to educate the public as to the history of railroading and the role of the railroads as part of our local and national heritage, and to engage in any and all activities convenient to these purposes. Fran, "The Hobo Minstrel" has spent sixty years studying American Hobo History and this collection was compiled from that research. www.worldpath.net /~minstrel/Hobolink.htm

Gallery Mint Museum ScrapBook - Ballcap Hobo Tokens The Trimmed Beard design is distinctly different than the design used for the obverse of the 1995 Britt Hobo Token that Ron also struck for distribution at the Britt Hobo Convention. It took me a while but I finally tracked down an example of the 1995 Baseball Cap Hobo Britt Hobo Convention copper token. All this is somehow related to the unissued 1994 Trimmed Beard Hobo OHNS nickel token that was, for some unknown reason, replaced by the 1994 Baseball Cap Hobo OHNS nickel token. www.grasshoppernet.com /walrafen/gmmbc.html

SerenitySingers Scrapbook pictures from Britt, Iowa- THE NATIONAL HOBO CONVENTION - 1999 Connie was crowned Queen of the Hobos in 1993. Connie is daughter of "Fishbones" who was King of Hobos in 1988. www.homestead.com /SerenitySingers/Serenity.html

HOBO MUSEUM This museum is an integral part of the National Hobo Convention which has been held in Britt since 1900. Through its exhibits and displays is shown the intricate history of hobo life with lots of railroad memorabilia. The hobo story is told in photographs, artifacts, and video. www.mountpleasantbeautiful.com /Iowa/article_245.shtml

Hobo Lore - tribe.net For hobos and those who yearn to be free. hobolore.tribe.net

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