Code,999020
Subject,Daniel Ray Pickrer
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Abstract,"Daniel Ray Pickral, born in 1957, comes from an agricultural background. After he graduated from college he traveled around the country and lived ""wherever Amtrak went."" He discovered skating and started skating and hitchhiking around the country, paying his way with odd jobs and giving interviews to strangers about his travels and lifestyle. Once he got to Cleveland, in 1991, he knew this was the place to settle because of the people's generosity. While in Cleveland he has picked up litter, helped stray dogs, been associated with the Cleveland Public Theatre, helped people set up community and private gardens, and has mostly remained homeless, living a semi-nomadic life.  "
Tags,"homelessness, migration, charity, volunteerism, work, Amtrak, gardening, urban gardens, community gardens"
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0,"Introduction, states his name, date of birth, origin"
1,"family, grandparents"
2,father worked for the industrial corn company; speaker's work at the corn processing company
3,two sisters
4,lived in Illinois
5,junior college
6,"moving around the country, Georgia, Connecticut"
7,"""I lived wherever Amtrak went"""
8,Hitchhiking from Atlanta to Arizona
9,his father got re-married
10,"Skated up to Chicago, back through Toledo, camping"
11,his backpack was stolen
12,"gave interviews to people, they invited them to dinner ""forty questions was usually a meal"""
13,"""Creating a park is like learning from God how to love the Earth"""
14,saw children in front of a school
15,"""you have to have good attitude and I could not do it"""
16,water from the lawn with irrigation and then found beer in the street
17,conversation with a lawn mower  man
18,"skating down Detroit Ave, he felt very thirsty"
19,found an apple tree near Tower City
20,went downtown
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24,story of a man from Garden Square
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26,"""I skate with dogs"""
27,different dogs that he had
28,"Tavern ""The Happy Dog"""
29,doorman job at Cleveland Public Theatre
30,a lot of litter in the area
31,"""lots of scary stories"", ""fights in the streets"", drugs in little plastic cups"
32,"the speaker swept the sidewalks; ""Do you remember me? I helped to sweep last night"""
33,"the raids near Cleveland Public Theatre, ""right now I am legally homeless"""
34,"lived in the gas station, in the mobile home"
35,"""right now I live in Croatian funeral home"""
36,slow skating on one leg
37,"""I keep learning new things about the balance"""
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39,singing songs about what's going on
40,"park open for skating, free lessons of skating and people that were injured while skating"
41,his major injury
42,"""I try to stay away from factories"""
43,travelling everywhere
44,"""eventually oil will get really expensive"""
45,cycles with cargo capacity on them
46,"sport attitude and entertainment, encouraging people to do sports"
47,would skate with a group of other skaters through the neighborhood and pick up all the trash
48,self-examination of the city would be a transformation
49,his background and school
50,"""I had to think about things differently"""
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52,the speaker would establish a cafe or restaurant
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54,Group Growing Together Organically
55,"his Garden, part is owned by the Russian Orthodox Church"
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