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Shawnee At It Again
NEW HAMPTON, Iowa -- A man known to many as "Iowa Blackie," who was a regular at the annual National Hobo Days Convention in Britt, has died.
Officials with the New Hampton Police Department say the hobo, whose real name was Richard Gage, was found dead in his home in New Hampton on Thursday. He was 62.
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier reports that Gage was given his hobo name in the 1970s. He supported himself by working whatever job he could find and selling books of his poetry that detailed his life as a hobo.
Gage began to chronicle his life as a hobo in 1987. His work is also included in the book "One More Train: the Underground World of Modern American Hoboes," by Cliff Williams.
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.
"Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her.
—James Barrie
Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum
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