Gloria Root, Miss December, 1969

Gloria Root, Miss December, 1969As American Poets from Walt Whitman to Chuck Berry have frequently suggested, the great expanse of the North American continent tends to make migrants of those who live on it. Twenty-one-year-old Gloria Root is one of the new breed of urban nomads who--in Berry's words--"live and love across both borders, trip East and West from coast to coast." In the past year and a half--since she decided that the nine-to-five work routine was a down trip after toilin...