tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102059386664840356.post6557273731753198779..comments2008-12-25T13:36:49.867-05:00Tony Besseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10527659148982534175noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102059386664840356.post-69442700773413436972008-12-25T13:36:00.000-05:002008-12-25T13:36:00.000-05:00The poverty is real. I have two sons in Maine, both have been layed off from good jobs and one actually will be homeless in less than two weeks.<BR/>Maine is expensive to live in of all states we have been to.Debb &amp; John Younghttps://homeiswherethecarsparked.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102059386664840356.post-58698280055091484912008-12-25T08:44:00.000-05:002008-12-25T08:44:00.000-05:00I grew up in a trailer not unlike the houses you show. The kids I went to school with lived in worse places than that. The poor in Maine don't want pity or improvement from the concerned outside enterprises. They want jobs to feed their families and the freedom to live in whatever kind of structures they want to call home.<BR/><BR/>You want real Maine, read Carolyn Chute. The places and personalities are more real than someone from Westbrook will ever know.<BR/><BR/>Although I am not as financially impoverished now as I was in my childhood, I can tell you with some authority that the people who live in those houses you photograph resent like hell being held up as some museum exhibit of poverty to be examined and tutt-tutted over. Just because they have no money does not mean they have no feelings and can be objectified as a sociological study without consequence.<BR/><BR/>Just sayin'.Dawn on MDIhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14722591049949538021noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4102059386664840356.post-45804455400165872172008-12-21T11:28:00.000-05:002008-12-21T11:28:00.000-05:00very well said !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com