“Adirondack Attic,” a feature of public radio station NCPR (Canton, New York), relates local history of New York State’s “North Country.” One recent segment describes Adirondack hermit Noah John Rondeau and presents audio from a 1959 radio interview with the “Hermit of Cold River.”
Russian hermit expelled from India
From <i>Russia & India Report</i> comes this item about a Russian living in India for 15 year as a hermit and now expelled by the government of India based on the hermit’s illegal status and his new desire to return to Russia.
Kirill Pomerantsev has spent 15 years in India living in the forest, studying Hinduism, and receiving food from locals.
“There are no issues in the wilderness. The local people are extremely kind; they helped me in every way possible, sharing their potatoes, beans and flour with me”, notes the Russian.
Pomerantsev explains that in addition to the food he was given by local people, he also ate greens that he picked in the woods. He used the flour to make chapattis.
“I would get up at five in the morning, have a wash, meditate, drink some tea, clean the house, perform puja and study literature. I can read Hindi, a language that I have taught myself”, explains the former hermit.
Nick, Tennesee hermit
A local northeast Tennessee newspaper called “The Tomahawk” offers a brief note about a local hermit named Nick (1851-1923). Brought to our attention by a friend of Hermitary. (Disappointingly, the photo in the article is of the writer, not Nick.)
URL: http://www.thetomahawk.com/Detail.php?Cat=THISTHAT&ID=58821
Londonderry NH hermit
A brief item in the Londonderry News (New Hampshire, US) about 19th-century hermit Charles Alan Lambert:
“Charles Alan Lambert arrived in Manchester in the 1840s from Lincolnshire, England to live the life of a hermit. He bought 40 acres on Mosquito Pond, as it was known then, and built a hut. He was a local celebrity, and was sought out by tourists for his home grown herbs. He lived in his hut for 60 years, and died at the Sisters of Mercy House of St. John for Aged Men in 1914. He was buried at St. Joseph’s Cemetery with a gravestone marked ‘The Hermit.’ … ”
URL: http://www.londonderrynh.net/?tag=hermits
Viktor, another Russian hermit
English Russia offers a photo gallery titled “Romance of the Hermit’s Life” about a 60-year old man living in a forest hut in Novgorod. The text and description is similar to another article (in Russia Today) about a hermit in the same vicinity, also named Viktor.
URL: http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2011/01/07/romance-of-the-hermits-life/