Harry McClintock's 1928 folk classic, "Big Rock Candy Mountains" was not intended as a children's' song. It originally sang of "cigarette trees," "streams of alcohol," and hens laying "soft-boiled eggs," among other things, and painted the idyllic scene of a hobo's heaven on earth. At Mobile Loaves & Fishes' new initiative to create a viable and sustainable housing solution for Austin's homeless, Community First!, the song title decorates the side of a storage shed. While the sentiment is not sanitized, it leans more toward the sweet and realistic here at this brave, new attempt at validating the inherent value of a neglected class. MLF broke ground on the project August 27, 2014. Welcome home.
