"from Jim Carroll is that she was lonely and depressed, "
Again, undigested
Mary was generally and extremely gregarious throughout her time on the road
Not long after she got her younger children back she decided to try and have them educated - the only way she could possibly do this is to move into a flat, which the then sympathetic Hackney Labour Council (on the advice of Ken Livingstone) helped her to do
For the period she was in her depressingly empty flat, she became equally depressed - alone all day and unable even to watch television
During that perion we continued to visit and record her - it was during that time we made some of the best recordings of her
When she returned back on the road she became her old self
Please learn to read everything that is put up - not just what suits you to believe


I have no idea what you are talking about (other unnamed guest) - feel free to elucidate
No-one here has descrived what Travelers do - there's isn't space on Mudcat to list the various ways they earn their living
We have a ten minute long recording of Mikeen McCarthy listing the various jobs he has done during his then comparatively short life - the last photograph we took of him is him standing next to a beatifully restored bier he had just completed

A number of people have described them as idle, thieving refuse-leaving scavengers - they are the descriptions that stick ouut in my mind
I may be ultra-sensitive - but given how Travellers are treated by society, I THINK I MIGHT BE FORGIVEN THE OCCASIONAL LAPSE
Jim Carroll