At a cook-out last night, veteran Albany.Bulb landfill residents discussed options to their looming dilemma (they are under formal eviction notice as of June 15, 1999). Generally, ...
There seems to be a feeling that there must be some effective legal remedy available. Their argument that they have the right as abandoned people to live on abandoned property if they're not harming anyone, etc. is common sensical enough for ...
even me, as conservative as I am. I think maybe they ought to have built a church by now, and be having regular services. That's a lot of work though, without water, the building I mean. One resident thought perhaps they could get some kind of native tribal ...
classification. "We *are* a tribe, he said. "This is our reservation." One fellow broached the notion that everyone living there before the 15th be entitled to share in a group purchase of the old dump, automatically becoming an eligible member of the tribe. Other likely(?) strategies were discussed: "Maybe this" and "Maybe that," but the most common sentiment expressed was a hope that the Parks dept. or whoever ends up controlling the space, could give them jobs as groundskeepers or stewards, and let them ...
stay on the land. "We're not lazy, said one resident, "you can't live out here if you're lazy." He's right about that. Everything they need: food, water, and all other supplies and material have to be hand or bicycle carried at least a mile from the nearest bus stop. (It's a half-mile or so from the nearest legal auto parking to the "Albany Bulb Information Center and Media Depot." next *door* to Robert the Rabbit's place about half-way out ...
for those lucky(?) enough to own an *infernal* combustion engine, as Will Rogers used to call it. See the map here.
