Article April 19, 2010 Issue

Our family wasn't homeless anymore

BY KENNETH BRACK

MY WIFE AND I LIVE in a comfortable neighborhood, in Vermont, near Dartmouth College, in a home we've owned for 18 years. It's hard to believe that about 30 years ago I was homeless, with a young family to care for.

My wife and I had traveled from New England to California with our one- and three-year-old daughters and just the possessions we could fit in our car. We'd been feeling somewhat adrift in our lives on the East Coast, the proverbial Americans going West to seek a better life. We went, however, not knowing where we would end up.

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