Category: United States

Item by the Post Star of Glen Falls, New YorkY, about a new book by William J. O’Hern titled Noah John Rondeau’s Adirondack Wilderness Days: A Year with the Hermit of Cold River Flow. Rondeau has been mentioned here before as a popular hermit figure of the Adirondack Mountains of New York. Among features of the book is discussion of Rondeau’s secret code in composing his journals. Includes an interesting photo of the code.

URL: http://www.poststar.com/articles/2009/10/03/ae/today/doc4ac6ab64ec9e0500120503.txt

A new summary of the life of Robert E. Harrill (1893-1972), the “Fort Fisher hermit” of Wilmington, North Carolina, from the Star News. Includes a photo of Harrill and his dog.

URL: http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090815/ARTICLES/908159990/1004?Title=Eye-on-the-Fort-Fisher-Hermit

An article from Men.Style.com on Daniel Suelo is titled, “Could You Survive Without Money? Meet the Guy Who Does.” Suelo has lived over 7 years without money, in a cave near Moab, Utah. The article writer visited with Suelo, interviews him about his past and records a typical day of food, foraging, and reflection.

URL: http://men.style.com/details/features/landing?id=content_9817

Daniel Suelo’s blog, “Moneyless World, Free World, Priceless World”: http://zerocurrency.blogspot.com/

This item on Kathryn Bloomquist from the Catholic News Agency and the Catholic Diocese of Salinas, Kansas describes how a widow became a nun and hermit within the Catholic rite. Sr. Kathryn had been strongly attracted to solitude throughout her marriage. When she became a widow, she sought out the bishop’s advice and then prepared for over four years to become a nun and simultaneously a hermit. Sr. Kathryn resides alone in the home she lived in with her late husband.

URL: http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=16498

American folk singer Pete Seeger, who recently celebrated his 90th birthday, tells a Voice of America News interviewer of a youthful desire built of rebellion:

As a teenager, Seeger says, he didn’t aspire to music, but to live in the woods. “I said I’m going to be a hermit. That’s the only way you can be honest in this world of hypocrisy. And I really meant it. I remember wondering, could I be a forest ranger? I went to a school where you learned to use an axe. And three days a week I was out there chopping trees.”

He returned to what his parents had surrounded him with in youth: music, musical instruments, and singing — and the rest is history. But Seeger still chops wood everyday and still lives in the log cabin he and his wife built in 1949 in Fishkill, New York.

URL: http://www.voanews.com/english/Entertainment/2009-05-12-voa14.cfm