Village says no hobos at Hobofest

"I'm not sure exactly what a hobofest is, but when I looked up hobo in the Webster's dictionary it said, 'tramp,'" Pelletieri said. "In another dictionary, the Funk and Wagnalls standard dictionary, it said, 'a migratory unskilled workmen, a professional idler, a tramp, a vagrant."

"When comparing that to our master plan, I'm not sure if something like that fits into what our goals were in the future. I'm also wondering, if these hobos don't have a place to stay, if they're going to camp out there, which I don't think is allowed in the park."

"There's no homeless people there," Trustee Tom Catillaz chimed in. "They are people that you see every day. It is just simply a music festival. It's pretty cool."

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Response Letter:

An exchange between village Board of Trustees members Allie Pelletieri, John McEneany and Tom Catillaz is reported in "Village says no hobos at Hobofest" (Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Aug. 23). Pelletieri is reported to have been worried that Hobofest would bring hobos to Saranac Lake - a hobo being a "migratory unskilled workman, a professional idler, a tramp, a vagrant." He expressed concern that this wouldn't fit with the village's master plan and that they - hobos - wouldn't have any place to stay. Pelletieri was reassured by Catillaz that there would not be any real hobos there, that it would be a "cool" music festival, and happily, the trustees unanimously approved the resolution, paving the way for the festival. Catillaz is to be commended, of course, for addressing Pelletieri's objections. But, in doing so, Catillaz said, "There's no homeless people there. (Rather) They are people that you see every day."

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