Timelines: "Living the Good Life" Gets a New Life

Melissa Coleman

Source

Down East

Date

4-2020

Pages

46, 48, 50, 52

Abstract

The story of Living the Good Life: How to Live Sanely and Simply in a Troubled World, the noted work self-published by homesteaders Helen and Scott Nearing in 1954. Describes the quest for a more authentic, sustainable existence which led the Nearings to embrace off-the-grid farming, first in Vermont and then in Maine. Also describes the genesis of their iconic book and the devotees it continues to inspire.

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