Hi Mary:
A very good description of Traveller culture. Often Travellers have painted for the same families for generations with great pride in their work. But, after centuries of discrimination, oppression and genocide, they are a very reclusive culture. In Honesdale PA. the same judge who sentenced the Long Island highschool rapists to four months in Youth camp, sent a young Traveller to prison for five years for showing up in town. He was charged with three misdimenors, all without a complainant, after a racial profiled stop. He has been in jail for over a year now and turned down for parol on the idiotic belief that his ethnicity is proof of both criminial intent and belonging to a criminal syindicate... his ethnic group. All the experts who have done field work within the community agree that this is pure myth. However, judges go on the advice of the National Association of Bunco Investigators, a racist hate group with NO members qualifed to speak about race and ethnicity. In fact, in every other nation, such as Canada, such organisations of police enthusiasts have been disbanded after law suits. The theory they work on has been abandoned in Ireand and Briton over twenty years ago.
Frankly I am a tired man, dealing with this age old prejudice here.
All the best
Larry