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Payne Hollow Journal (Paperback)
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Payne Hollow Journal (Paperback)
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Harlan Hubbard was Kentucky's Thoreau, and his journals are
intimate records of a life lived in harmony with nature. For more
than fifty years the artist, writer, and homesteader described
daily activities and recorded keen observations as he sought to
live simply and authentically. The third and climactic volume of
his journals, Payne Hollow Journal, contains entries from the years
he and his wife, Anna, lived at their Payne Hollow home along the
Ohio River's Kentucky shore. There they mastered the arts of
country life, building their own stone and timber house in 1952 and
raising their own food. To live with nature was not a novel
experience for the couple; earlier they had floated down the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans on their homemade shantyboat.
Hubbard described this journey in Shantyboat Journal, the basis for
his Shantyboat and Shantyboat on the Bayous. By turns poetic and
practical, Payne Hollow Journal celebrates nature's intense beauty
and sometimes harsh realities as perhaps only an artist can see
them. Here Hubbard reveals how dedication to work that provides
sustenance -- gardening, wood chopping, fishing, foraging, and
raising goats-can also be fulfilling. Don Wallis's arrangement of
the Payne Hollow entries reflects the seasonal changes in Hubbard
and his life as well as in the natural world around him. At the
beginning of this volume Hubbard writes, "When we are away from
Payne Hollow, that place does not seem real or possible.... It is
hard to explain our situation, to give reasons for our living this
way to people who have no understanding or sympathy." A visit to
the Hubbards' home through Payne Hollow Journal is ample
explanation for anyone who has yearned to lead a life of simplicity
and purpose.
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