Category: United States

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

New Hampshire hermit Dave Lidstone is in trouble, again. He had been evicted last August from the wooded acreage where he squatted in a cabin, and during his night in jail the cabin mysteriously burned down. But an outer building, a shed, did survive, and when let out of jail Dave made his way back to the property and took up residence in the shed. He was arrested again last December and was scheduled to appear in court in March but did not. So, he’s in trouble again. The judge issued a warrent for his arrest.

URL: https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2022-03-07/river-dave-a-no-show-in-court-on-trespassing-charge

River Dave trust dissolves: https://news.yahoo.com/river-dave-trust-dissolves-hermit-080700938.html