Those numbers don't reflect the number of people who will ride the bus, since one person may take several trips a year. Copyright 1997 Tri-City Herald. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. I call them earth angels because these children touch us indirectly.
Migrant children are uniquely an invisible culture.
And they're invisible because our culture is ashamed, so we keep them hidden. A collection of photographs from her book, Earth Angels, published by Pomegranate Art Books, begins today at Washington State University at Tri-Cities in Richland and runs through September. The pictures, many taken in the migrant camps of Eltopia and asparagus fields near Pasco, focus on the migrant children whose lives are dictated by the change of seasons. Buirski, foreign picture editor at the New York Times, was shown around the Columbia Basin's fields by a translator from the Washington State Migrant Council. I never went by myself.