Dave Arden, author of Chosen to Speak, struggled for years with a speech impediment…
Waiting for the Train: Excerpt 4
“Does one have to live amidst squalor and want and ignorance to experience real brotherhood?”
Waiting for the Train: Excerpt 3
A description of John MacDonald’s first encounter with the railway hobos of his time, and his disbelief at the nature of “The Jungle”.
Waiting for the Train: Excerpt 2
John MacDonald, the author of this journal, was no stranger to action.
Waiting for the Train: Excerpt 1
John MacDonald’s story starts in the early part of the Great Depression. Although he was a combat veteran of World War I, he likens the difficulty of enduring this tumultuous time as being harsher than a literal battlefield.