Brief newspaper item on a New Zealand cottage (with picture) housing a since-prominent Chinese New Zealander in the 1930s, now designated an historic site. URL:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3598956&thesection=news&thesubsection=general.
Florida Everglades hermit
Not long after posting our article on Florida Everglades Hermits, the following item appears in a local Florida newspaper relating the discovery of one of the hermit’s notebooks, Al Seely’s would-be autobiography titled by him The Phoney Hermit, which is reprinted in part here.
Part 1: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12931630&BRD=2256&PAG=461&dept_id=455823&rfi=8;
Part 2: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=12971705&BRD=2256&PAG=461&dept_id=455823&rfi=8;
Part 3: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13023953&BRD=2256&PAG=461&dept_id=455823&rfi=8;
Part 4: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=13074695&BRD=2256&PAG=461&dept_id=455823&rfi=8.
Michigan hermit
Bill Mattila was called the “hermit of Brockway Mountain.” There are pictures of his cabin, near Copper Harbor, Michigan, on a message board, plus several messages from people who remember him or just wanted to add a comment. URL: http://www.pasty.com/discuss/messages/313/893.html
Minnesota hermit: Dorothy Molter
Dorothy Molter (1907-89) — sometimes spelled Moulter — lived as a hermit in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, in the Superior National Forest, in northern Minnesota. She was the subject of a LIFE magazine profile on hermits and a book by Bob Cary entitled Root Beer Lady, the Dorothy Molter Story (Duluth: Pfeiffer-Hamilton, 1992). Molter was called the “Rootbeer Lady” because she offered her home-made root beer to visitors and travelers. A museum near Ely preserves her cabins and effects. URLs: http://www.canoecountry.com/dorothy and http://www.irontrail.org/Attractions/museums/Dorothy+Molter+Museum/.
Hermits portrayed
Two items about hermits portrayed in film and theater:
1. Lugger the 18th-century hermit who lived in a cave in Cornwall, England, is portrayed in a stage play; URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/3922693.stm.
2. Robert Harrill, the Fort Fisher hermit of North Carolina, is portrayed in a documentary film. URLs: http://www.shelbystar.com/portal/ASP/article.asp?ID=10493; http://www.cucalorus.org/film_detail.asp?id=261 and http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/states/
north_carolina/counties/gaston/9222304.htm?1c. For more about the Fort Fisher Hermit see our original note for July 30, 2003 (URL: http://www.hermitary.com/around/archives/000094.html).