Travel Channel coming to Gary for
Leif Garrett’s How the Other Half Lives
By Kate Peerman,
THG Features
A new Travel Channel series brings you
the stories of the worst people and places in the United States. Hosted by
actor/musician Leif Garrett, How the Other Half Lives honors the men and
women in the United States who live in the poorest ghettos that America has to
offer.
On his tour, Garrett will visit areas
of New York City, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Houston, Chicago, and Detroit. One
episode focuses on the life and times of citizens in Gary, once dubbed The
Murder Capital of America and generally considered worldwide as one of the worst
places to live this side of the Third World for its terrible living conditions.
How the Other Half Lives is
named after the 1890 book of the same name by Danish immigrant Jacob Riis, a
reporter for the New York Tribune who reported on the slum dwellings and abuses
of lower class urban life. Riis’s accounts are considered by many scholars to
be the best displays of what life was like for the urban poor in the late 19th
Century.
Taping of the Gary episode will begin
on July 4, during the Independence Day parade and music festival. Episodes of
How the Other Half Lives will begin airing in November.
