Category: United States

New Hampshire hermit River Dave Lidstone, who was ordered by a judge to leave his squatter cabin, has done so, moving to Maine, where he has a new camp as his new home, speaking avidly about his new situation. Though the millionaire-owner of the New Hampshire property where Dave had squated has since passed away, Lidstone is not looking back re his court case and is embracing his new quarters and friends.

URLs: https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/river-dave-banned-from-new-hampshire-site-moves-to-maine-1.6030661; https://www.sunjournal.com/2022/08/17/new-hampshire-hermit-river-dave-moves-to-maine/

ABC/RN (Australi anBroadcasting Corporation/Radio News) offers a profile of women hermits in New York City and beyond in its article: “A secret society of ‘Hermettes’ is reclaiming and celebrating female aloneness.” From the opening paragraphs:

“Risa Mickenberg lives in a stylish New York City apartment, but she prefers to call the dwelling something else: Her “cave”.

Despite being in close proximity to around eight million other people, Ms Mickenberg shuns many social connections and relationships. Instead, she enjoys time in her cave or experiencing the world outside alone.

And she’s not the only one living like this. Ms Mickenberg is the founder of “Hermettes”, a secret society of like-minded women who are reclaiming and celebrating female aloneness.”

URL: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-11/hermettes-secret-society-risa-mickenberg/101212682

An article in the Panama City Herald titled “Meet Teddy, the St. Andrews Hermit” describes the Norway-born Theodore Tollefsen (1882-1954). He fished as a young man, sailing the world, settling in 1906 on the northeast Florida gulf coast to live on his boat from fishing. The 1929 hurriane reached this part of Florida and destroyed his boat, but Teddy remained in the vicinity, rebuilding his life, gradually more separate from town and populace by natural and artificial causeways. He became a hermit.

URL: https://www.newsherald.com/story/news/2022/07/10/long-before-st-andrews-state-park-there-teddy-hermit/7828003001/

An article by Xintiang Wang in a recent issue of The Daily Beast describes women hermits in New York City and around the world, living in congested cities but successfully and contentedly pursuing solitary lives and personal interests. The article title: “Meet the ‘Hermettes’: A Secret Society of Women Who Prefer to Be Left Alone.”

The article mentions The Book of Hermits. The book author exchanged correspondence with the article author, adddressing information about women solitaries in history and psychology. The article captures the eccentric flare and the single-mindedness of the “hermettes.”

URL: https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-hermettes-a-secret-society-of-women-who-prefer-to-be-left-alone