Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life

Rebel, seeker, traveler, observer, vagabond. Writer and poet Jim Christy hasbeen called all these things and more. Inspired at age twelve after reading JackKerouac’s On The Road one summer while running wild in the streets of his tough-as-nails, mob-run South Philadelphia neighborhood, Christy began hislife-long habit of following the wind.In his seventy-plus years, Christy asserted his freedom of spirit as a vagabondadventurer, latter-day hobo, journalist, private eye, actor, musician, and arti