Moments - EMILY KASK

Jenna Fountain carries a bucket down Regency Drive to try to recover items from their flooded home in Port Arthur, Texas, on Thursday, September 1.

Danializ Marquez, center, 10, of Hartford, has scoliosis. The Make a Wish Foundation got her an escort from the Hartford Police Department from her home in Hartford, Conn. on July 18, to Bradley Airport, where she would fly to SeaWorld to meet a dolphin who also has scoliosis.

Matt Johnson, center, reaches back to punch Michael, his former traveling companion in the head, while handing off his beer to a man parked next to them at a gas station parking lot in Bowling Green, Ky., on October 17. Matt, a trainhopper who has been riding the rails for 15 years, originally from Stoughton, Wisconsin, had been traveling with Michael for 5 days, after getting out of jail in Indiana, before they had this drunken altercation. They stopped traveling together after the fight.

Soup gives birth to Clarabelle in a friends home in Paonia, Colorado on Sept. 19. Soup and her boyfriend, Nickel, live as modern nomads and plan on raising Clarabelle on the road as a ghost baby.

The funeral for Nicholas Mankin, 16, a rising senior at Red Lion High school was held at Olewiler & Heffner Funeral Chapel in Red Lion on Saturday, June 20. Mankin passed away after a car accident on Tuesday, along with one of his football teammates.

Deborah Finco shares a moment with two horses that she rescued, Cocoa, right, a six year old miniature Appaloosa and her foal Puff, a two month old miniature horse at Beech Brook Equine Rescue Farm in Mystic on June 3.

A man prepares to throw the ball during a game of fireball on July 12. Although some players use their feet to kick the ball, it is proper tradition to pick it up and throw it, as getting burnt by the fire is part of the healing process to the medicine game. Many men who live on the Tuscarora reservation have permanent scars and burns from playing the game.

Ra'jene Garrett, left, a sophomore elementary education major from Madisonville, and Domonique White, right, a junior family studies major from Lexington, practice a dance to Missy Elliot's "Lose Control" during the Omega Chi practice at the Downing Student Union at the WKU campus in Bowling Green, Ky., on March 20.

Soup and Nickel take a nap under a bridge in Bowling Green, Ky., while waiting for a freight train to hope out on. Soup is 4 months pregnant and plans on raising her baby on the road as a ghost baby.

Maritza DeJesus of Hartford poses for a portrait with a plush figure of her late son, Luis Maldonado, that was made from a photo of him when he was 7 that they bought at a fair together. Luis was killed in a hit and run car accident a month earlier in May.

Trent Samelko, 8, of Mechanicsburg, plays with some of his friends at Metro Bank Park on City Island in Harrisburg on Friday, June 12 before a baseball game between the Harrisburg Senators and the Trenton Thunders.

Hippie Hill residents Destiny, left, and Zombie, right, share an intimate moment before a kiss in their camper on Hippie Hill in Christiana, Tenn. Hippie Hill is a home and a haven for transients in rural Tennessee.

Fans reach to grab a fly ball at Metro Bank Park on City Island in Harrisburg on Friday, June 12 during a baseball game between the Harrisburg Senators and the Trenton Thunders. The Senators won the game 4-2.

Harold Jenkins has been living in Rochester, Kentucky, since 1944. His father, Richard, opened the Jenkin's bait & tackle shop, almost 50 years ago. Harold works there now, and it is one of the three remaining businesses in Rochester.

Sister Grace Miller, right, founder of the House of Mercy, a homeless shelter in downtown Rochester, N.Y., calls residents “Handyman”, left, and Elena, center, into her office to resolve a dispute on Dec. 17. Handyman was intoxicated and refered to Elena, who has breast cancer, as a “cancerous bitch”.

Sydney LaDonna Farrar, known as “Donna”, a resident of Hippie Hill, a haven for transient and homeless people in Christiana, Tenn., holds 10 month-old Lennon Joiner in a mobile home on Hippie Hill where Lennon and his mother, Stacey, are currently residing. Farrar has two biological children herself, but does not have custody of either of them. She helps take care of a few of the children who live on the Hill. “I’m made to be a mother, I love taking care of other people, much more than I can take care of myself” said Farrar.