Wednesday, July 30, 2008

SEE YOU IN A HUNDRED YEARS : FOUR SEASONS IN FORGOTTEN AMERICA
by Logan Ward

Imagine what it would be like to walk away from the twenty-first century and give up telephones, computers, electricity, cars, supermarkets; everything that is familiar and taken for granted.
Logan Ward and his wife, Heather, after becoming worn down from their rat race life in New York, pull up stakes and move to rural Virginia to live as dirt farmers, but in the year 1900.
They learn how to cook on a wood stove, milk their two goats (Heather becomes quite adept at making cheese), harvest their crops, can food to store in their root cellar, how to drive a wagon, and use tools that were available back then.
See You in a Hundred Years is a wonderful book and beautifully written.
Highly recommended.