SFGate.com interview with Steve Georgiou, author of The Way of the Dreamcatcher, on his spirituality and on his mentor Robert Lax, the poet-hermit. URL: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/02/15/findrelig.DTL. See also the Hermitary article on Robert Lax.
California recluse-woodcarver
Intriguing article about John McAbery, a reclusive artist-woodcarver living by the ocean in a rugged stretch of northern California. He lives in a cabin, without technology or people to be seen. URL: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mcabery31jan31
,0,2811129.story?coll=la-home-headlines.
Maryland hermit: J. D. Walker
In this pleasant Quest Magazine article (Theosophical Society in America), J. D. Walker, who describes herself as an artist in the Chinese ink painting tradition and a hermit in the Tibetan Drikung Kagyud tradition of Vajrayana Buddhism, discusses hermitage literature and the wisdom of hermits. URL: http://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/questmagazine/mayjune2001/walker/. Brought to our attention by a friend of Hermitary.
Mennonite recluse
This page from Mennonite Life tells the modest story of the reclusive Ohio Mennonite Abraham Nofziger and reprints posthumously his sayings. URL: http://www.bethelks.edu/mennonitelife/2002dec/wiebe_story.php. Submitted by a friend of Hermitary.
Wisconsin hermit/homeless
A 1934 photo from the Wisconsin Historical Society labeled “Joseph Smith, Hermit” portrays a man “rescued from squalid shack.” URL: http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/fullRecord.asp?id=16121.