Summary: At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America. Several Depression-era teenage hobos provide a glimpse of their transient lives, interspersed with excerpts from songs that chronicle hobo life. http://www.pbs.org/amex/rails Voices: James San Jule Jim Mitchell Rene Champion Clarence Lee John Fawcett Peggy De Hart Miles Neff, narrator Music: "I Rode Southern" sung by Merle Lovell "The Highway Hobo" sung by Noel Westbrook "Stevensville Blues" performed by Lum Wilson "Bill" Jackson and A. W. Mullins "Loveless CCC" sung by Tommy Rhoades Songs courtesy of "Voices from the Dust Bowl: the Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941," American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Produced by: Ravi Jain Director of New Media: Maria Daniels American Experience is produced by WGBH Boston. Major funding for American Experience is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Major corporate funding is provided by Liberty Mutual. Additional funding is provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and by public television viewers.
