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The Irish Travelers of North Augusta, S.C., stopped their pickups in the middle of the road last week to commiserate over the "outing" of Madelyne Gorman Toogood. The woman caught thrashing her 4-year-old on a surveillance video in Indiana is also, as it turns out, an Irish Traveler...
"I'm not going to tell you they're all honest, good citizens here," says Mike (Mikey Boy) Sherlock, 68, gesturing out toward his 3,000 fellow Travelers who live in Murphy Village, the country's largest Traveler community. "You got some people that I wouldn't trust with nothing...
The Traveler life is an odd composite of Old World and McWorld. Like most other Travelers, Penn has a madonna statue on his lawn. Hisdaughter was 14 when she married her 20-year-old fiance--an arranged match, like "99%" of village marriages, he says. And like many other Travelers...
In a Traveler settlement near Fort Worth, Texas, where Toogood has lived, local non-Travelers say prepubescent boys carry wads of cash and drive their parents' flashy new cars. Some Travelers are indeed yonks, the cant term for thieves. Six North Augusta Travelers pleaded guilty last year to using fraudulent...
The two Hong Kong movies in Toronto displayed what is left of a once-vital film form. Fruit Chan's Public Toilet wanderlusts from India to New York City with its young, blond, Chinese hero, who is named Public Toilet because that is where his mother gave birth to him...