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They are first and foremost con-artists and thieves. Modern day flim flam artists. They speak their own language (a celtic mix, as there is a lot of celtic blood in the South) and they live completely off the grid (no social security, etc.). During the cold-weather months they live in large enclaves of campers and mobile homes at "bases" in various states, but during the warm-weather months they drift outward and scam people out of their money mostly through phony home-repair services. A percentage of their "take" is put into the community pot to get them through the winter. You must be born into them to be one of them as they observe ancient rites of bloodlines and marriage.
Grancey has one of their rings, which was thrown out as a group of them were being chased out of our county years ago.
And as I mentioned in my second edit above - I did not say the Travelers were hippies. I said they were gypsies. Irish gypsies.
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