A short Web page (from a local newspaper’s collection of postcards) about George Washington Gilbert, the so-called “Hermit of Ridgefield” in Connecticut, who died in 1924. URL: http://www.acorn-online.com/pc/hermit.htm.
Hermits in Art: Ansoald
From the Bibliotheque nacionale de France: a medieval woodcut depicts Ansoald, the seventh-century bishop of Poitiers, visiting a hermit. The woodcut dates from the 14th-century and clearly depicts the hermit as an anchorite. URL: http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/texte/manuscrit/aman5/i1_0017.htm.
San Bruno Mt. hermit
The San Bruno mountain near San Francisco was home to Dwight Taylor, a hermit, through 1987. The first URL describes him through the eyes of another frequenter of the mountain. The second URL describes his eviction from the mountain after ten years’ residence. Dwight remarked, “I’m a hermit because some people were just born to be hermits.” He reflected philosophically upon his eviction by authorities that he was getting too many visitors on the mountain anyway and that now he could search out a place of great solitude.
URL1: http://www.mountainwatch.org/mountainwire/herstory/besh/#dwight
URL2: http://www.mountainwatch.org/mountainwire/herstory/19870516.htm
Thanks to a friend of Hermitary for submitting this information.
Hermits in Art: St. Anthony
An early sixteenth-century altarpiece depicting St. Anthony the hermit and scenes from his life is housed at the Catholic Church in Szepesszombat, Hungary. URL: http://hungart.euroweb.hu/english/zmisc/oltar/16_sz/2szepes/.
Hermits in Art: Juan Garinus
The strange legend of the hermit Juan Garinus of the monastery of Montserrat in Spain is illustrated by an unusual sculpture near Kuks in eastern Bohemia. URL: http://www.novyles.cz/en/sochy/s_08.htm.