Harlan and Anna Hubbard, newly married in middle age, build the
boat of their dreams and drift down the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers. Harlan is an artist and a writer with a poet's eye for the
beauty of the world. Anna is a musician and an elegant master of
the arts of graceful living. For seven years (1944-1951) the
Hubbards make their home on their little boat, drifting with the
river, camping on the land. Together they learn how to create and
sustain a self-sufficient way of life that is infinitely
fulfilling. It is a "river way of life" - free-flowing, endowed
with the love of nature, the discovery of community, the rewards of
good work, and the joy of creativity. The journal that Harlan kept
during their shantyboat years is a witness to history, embracing
the gentle spirit of an America now lost to modern "progress". It
offers one of the most significant renderings in our literature of
a deeply felt sense of place. Out of this journal grew Harlan
Hubbard's enduring classic, Shantyboat, and his idyllic Shantyboat
on the Bayous. His later Payne Hollow is a Thoreauvian testament to
the values embodied in the homesteading life the Hubbards lived for
four decades after they completed their epic river journey. Their
life together has been praised by Wendell Berry as "one of the
finest accomplishments of our time". The Shantyboat Journal reveals
its creation.
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