Hoboscopes
Hoboscopes: November 5, 2025
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Mr. Mysterio is not a licensed astrologer, a trained birdwatcher, or a certified jeans-guy.
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This year Nashville will have its first free community Dia de Muertos celebration at the Nashville City Cemetery, which is the oldest continuously operated public cemetery in the city.
Mr. Mysterio is not a licensed astrologer, a trained birdwatcher, or a certified jeans-guy.
Wendell Segroves, a skilled craftsman and a former member of the Metro Homelessness Commission and Homelessness Planning Council, moved to Old Tent City in 2004. Wendell and his dogs. Photo by Steve Samra
“There were only five people there and I had to be invited in,” he said. “It was Nashville’s best kept secret.”
In those days, the camps were spread out. “We kept to ourselves,” explained Wendell.
… this land had served as a sanctuary for unhoused residents for over 40 years. It was never just a camp.
Darla the dog came to visit us in the fall of 2008. It was when we lived in that little duplex right by the train tracks with car-glass and graffiti in the backyard.
One of the most powerful men in Tennessee was indicted for murder a more than a hundred years ago.