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- From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
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- Subject: [Homestead] Lifestyle appraisal
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:29:37 -0700
On Nov 17, 2008, at 8:02 AM, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
It takes a 'different' sort of person to shrug-off society's condemnationof your lifestyle. Think about the Nearings...before they were famous, they
were considered kooks and outcasts.
Scott Nearing did things to justify those labels even before he left his scholastic and urban political life.
The majority of Americans view the homestead lifestyle as going backwards, and those of us doing it as strange anomalies who cannot be understood by modern logic. For the last thirty-two years, as I have moved in and out of urban and rural life I have been amused by the many urbanites who asked "why" and the many more who became speechless or mumbled polite platitudes.
I see us as possessed of a modicum of nostalgia but mostly an unusually large amount of common sense and strong belief in ourselves.
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Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiable non-cashsmartcardsfortransportation
, (continued)
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiable non-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, bob ford, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiablenon-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, Lynn Wigglesworth, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiablenon-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, bob ford, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going toidentifiablenon-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, Lynn Wigglesworth, 11/17/2008
- [Homestead] Homesteading sans spouse, Gene GeRue, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Homesteading sans spouse, Lynn Wigglesworth, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Homesteading sans spouse, bob ford, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Homesteading sans spouse, Lynn Wigglesworth, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Homesteading sans spouse, Cathy, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going toidentifiablenon-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, bob ford, 11/17/2008
- [Homestead] Lifestyle appraisal, Gene GeRue, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiable non-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, VAN DELL JORDAN, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiable non-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, bob ford, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiablenon-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, Lynn Wigglesworth, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiablenon-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, bob ford, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going toidentifiablenon-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, Lynn Wigglesworth, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiablenon-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, Gene GeRue, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Heinlein, was SE PA going, EarthNSky, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Heinlein, was SE PA going, Jeanne Driese, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Heinlein, was SE PA going, bob ford, 11/17/2008
- Re: [Homestead] Heinlein, was SE PA going, EarthNSky, 11/17/2008
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