Steve Mensing, Editor/RFP Staff/Feral Salisbury
♦ Long overlooked by historic preservationists in Salisbury, N.C. are the city’s many historic mobile homes and trailer parks serving as homes to freedom loving folks living out the “Grapes of Wrath” dream of true mobility.
One of Salisbury’s must do adventures is a visit to the mobile homes and trailer parks out on Airport Road. Here a counter-culture lives unnoticed unless animal control is forced to deal with dog fight rings or packs of feral pooches roaming free and preying on a mobile park’s undomesticated livestock: chickens and goats. Occasionally the remnants of meth labs are found nearby.
The folks dwelling in mobile rancheros aspire to an unencumbered life and distain the prying eyes of census takers and code enforcement. Here a man can park his motorcycle against the front of his home, fire off a round or too or nail a “no trespassing” sign to his door and expect it to be there the next morning. This is life and if the Bury gets too trifling, there’s always to the road out.
Enjoy a visual feast of the historic mobile homes and trailer parks of Salisbury, N.C.:
