Rural Roots in Southeastern Washington State: I grew up in a remote company trailer park with this view. Landmarks were long forsaken grain elevators that my father used to clean out from the inside in the mid 1970s. I used to play in the pictured cesspool thinking it was a pond, drawn by the croaking frogs. My mother worked now and then sorting seed on the conveyor belts pictured next, the potatoes were warehoused in the cooling houses pictured. When I was perhaps 8 or 9 years old, my community got together and petitioned the grower to allow the community to use the barren land adjacent to the trailer park, together we made a park in the middle of nowhere and I grew up playing basketball on the asphalt. I lived in the yellow lined trailer in the distance past the goal post for 13 years. Mexican settlement in rural communities means life in this way, new generations of farmworkers continue to live in this settlement and have kept up the park from their own labor.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 03:35:08 +0000
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