Nothing but the pack on your back: A train-hopping gallery exhibit

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Nothing but the pack on your back: A train-hopping gallery exhibit

POSTED: Friday, September 11, 2009, 7:57 PM

Filed Under: Arts Photos

Amelia Merrick

I've never been brave enough to abandon society (and regular meals, heat/AC and bathing) completely and go train-hopping for an extended period of time. I've met many people who have, though, and they're some of the wisest, most exciting people I know. And I did do it once ' only from Cumberland, Md. to somewhere in Ohio, but still. The nervousness, the joy of getting away with it, the sky as you've never seen it before at night, the ability to travel cheaply ' it was a thrill.

Amelia Merrik has documented her train-hopping adventures ' or her time of "of being a dirty kidd," as she she says ' in an exhibit titled "A Photographic Journey of Riding Freight Trains Across America." It's going up today, Sept. 11 at Benna's Caf' (Eighth and Warton streets, 215-334-1502). There'll be an opening exhibit from 7 to 9 p.m., and Merrik will be there. Talk to her if you can. I'd be shocked if she didn't have a million wild yarns to tell.

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