Help, IV~~~Mexican families set up their weekend pitches???

[Robin Landseadel]

On Aug 27, 2009, at 7:38 AM, Dan Hansong wrote:
> I guess "weekend pitches" means "camping on weekends", right? If so,  
> these Mexican families must
> be some amateurish artists who sell velvet paintings in some  
> temporary tents? But, what the hell
> is "Out of the vans and into the calm early mornings would  
> come ..."??? This sentence can't make
> any sense to me, though I know TRP lists some paintings here.
>
> A lot of thanks.

No camping, more likely flea markets and retail establishments even  
less formal, outdoors sales events on otherwise empty lots featuring  
vintage, oft-times decal-ed, Vans and paintings under blued-shaded sun- 
tents, usually parked between the grapes and the corn and the churches  
and the fruit stands. Lots of that going on in Central California.