Category: United States

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
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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.

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.

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.

Noah John Rondeau (1883-1967) was known as the Adirondack hermit. He lived in a wilderness area of Cold River, New York, dubbing his hermitage Cold River City (population 1) and himself as mayor. Rondeau began staying in his hermitage even over the harsh winters after 1929. He was forced to move after a 1950 storm leveled much of the forest around his hermitage. Some details about Rondeau are offered on the “Adirondack Lives” web site: http://www.adirondackhistory.org/newadklives/ and at http://www.adirondack-park.net/history/noah.john.rondeau.html). The first link has good photos. There are also two books on Rondeau: Noah John Rondeau, Adirondack Hermit by Maitland C. DeSormo and Life With Noah: Stories and Adventures of Richard Smith with Noah John Rondeau as told to William J. O