Riding the Rails | Reference.com

I’m always impressed by the continuous flow of innovation from the Rails community. Below are just a few of the highlights from the past month. These stories all came from the Ruby5 Podcast, which covers all the news from the Ruby and Rails community twice weekly.

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Teaching Children About The Great Depression

RIDING THE RAILS: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depressio ... Riding the rails was a rite of passage for a generation of young people and profoundly shaped the rest of their lives. Self-reliance, compassion, frugality, a love of freedom and country are at the heart of the lessons they learned.

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Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression

Riding the Rails What Life Was Like During the Great Depression ... "Riding the Rails" is a riveting document of hope and hardship during one of this nation's bleakest eras. For all that has been written about the Depression, the travails of those under the age of 18 have been sorely underrepresented.

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Riding the Rails during the Great Depression

Riding the rails was dangerous. The bulls were hired to keep hoboes off trains, so you couldn't just go to a railroad yard and climb on. Most hoboes would hide along the tracks outside the yard. They'd run along the train as it gained speed, grab hold and jump into open boxcars.

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Riding the Rails - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Riding the Rails is a 1938 Fleischer Studios animated short film featuring Betty Boop and Pudgy the Pup. Although some sources claim that this film was nominated for an Academy Award, it does not a...
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American Experience . Riding the Rails | PBS

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American Experience . Riding the Rails . Special Features | PBS

Tales from the Rails; The stories of seven teenage hobos, plus tales sent in by web visitors ; Striking a Chord; Hobo songs from the 1930s ; Added Obstacles; For African America hobos, life on the road was especially difficult...

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In its extraordinarily tender account of the lives of teenage freight-train riders, Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautionary legacy of the Great Depression.

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Riding the Rails ... Many young people grew up during the 1930s "riding the rails." These young people, often called boxcar children, learned lessons of self-reliance and as adults carry memories of nostalgia and pain. ... Riding the Rails: Teenagers on the Move During the Great Depression, Errol Lincoln Uy...

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Finding the Charm of Cross-Country Rail Travel - NYTimes.com

Riding the rails isn’t quite the romantic journey it once was. But for one traveler, a cross-country trip was a way to reconnect with America. ... Riding the Rails...

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