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Driving the old roads. Going fast and going slow. Tramps in England, Hobos in America. The collective and the singular. Who is walking through their life now? Who is traveling the back roads today?
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Driving the old roads. Going fast and going slow. Tramps in England, Hobos in America. The collective and the singular. Who is walking through their life now? Who is traveling the back roads today?
Broadcast History
Aired on Good Morning West Marin Monday Feb 16 2009. Host Susan Deixler
Transcript
February 2009
Roads to somewhere.
The old road from Fleet to Camberly, the B131, runs alongside of Minley Manor its estate and the woods. As I child, if I stood on tip toe at my bedroom window, I could see the green copper roof of the Manor way, way far away. It sat nestled in its own woodland forrest three long fields distant. When I grew old enough to ride, the hill on which the Manor sat became a destination. It has been sequestered by the army during WW2 and remained alive and bustling with Military officers, horses and their grooms. As young girls out riding in the forrest we were forbidden to talk with the soldiers if we met them. But our little stable, run by a retired Army major was a destination for the young grooms and, when, under the chaperoning twinkling eyes of the major one of the grooms called out, “Up you go then. Now take ‘im down that grid at a good canter,” my frie...
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