The brilliant journalist, Marilyn Berlin Snell, got the idea of following Dorothea Lange’s trail through the Central Valley of California where the most foreclosures were happening in America in 2010. The first time we met a couple in their foreclosed on home, I wept when they told us their story. Marilyn advised me to behave more professionally and so we both held back tears until we could drive away and then we let loose.

One of the most surprising moments was the morning we went down for breakfast in a hotel in Sacramento and discovered we were the only guests because it had gone in foreclosure after we arrived.