Woodrow Landfair

Who is Woodrow Landfair?

Woodrow Landfair, born Stanley Wood Landfair, Jr. on November 9, 1982 in Richmond, Virginia also called Pack Landfair, is an American storyteller. Landfair gained notoriety in 2006 and 2007 while chronicling a 48 state motorcycle trek and paying his way as a laborer from town to town across all 50 states. During his life on the road, Landfair stayed in two New York City homeless shelters, worked with illegal immigrants, and spent over a month living within the Anarchist group Common Ground Collective in New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward after Hurricane Katrina. Among other odd jobs, Landfair worked as a day laborer, a swimming pool lifeguard, a bouncer, a truck driver, a door-to-door salesman, a beverage delivery man, a stagehand, and a waiter for a New York City Italian restaurant with ownership ties to the Gambino crime family. Landfair used the jobs, as well as his previous experiences, as material for oral stories.

Between traveling and working, Landfair began self-promoting in roadside bars and coffee shops where he talked about his hoboing experiences. He developed a storytelling act through 71 cities across 48 states, eventually appearing in theaters and on regional and nationwide television.