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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiable non-cashsmartcardsfortransportation
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:18:10 EST



> >It takes a 'different' sort of person to shrug-off society's
> condemnation
> of your lifestyle. Think about the Nearings...before they were famous, they
> were considered kooks and outcasts.

Lynn, the first part of this post, to which I want to respond later, is quite
to the point.

This bit is too, but the Nearings were not considered kooks because they went
to rural Vermont to raise a big garden and heat their house with wood. In
1932 that was more common than not. Around here, a rural area much like the
Vermont they moved to, at that time everyone lived pretty much like the
Nearings
.... the essentials at least.

We homesteaders consider Nearing's fame to be that of a homesteader, which
fame he achieved in the late 60's and early 70's, but he was quite famouse,
or
infamous, long before that. He was an active and card carrying communist and
ran against F. H. LaGuardia in 1918 for congress (NY) on the Socialist party
ticket. He also ran for Governor of New Jersey on the same ticket. He wrote
a
paphlet agaisnt the participation in the first world war and was tried for
treason, and acquitted (althought he publisher of the paphlet was convicted).

So by 1932 when he and Helen (who was Helen NOT a Nearing at the time, Scott
was married to someone else. They were married in 1949 after Scotts wife,
Nellie, died) went to what they termed the "storm cellar in New England" to
weather out the Great Depression, Scott had already been famous and was
fading
into obscurity.


James



  • Re: [Homestead] SE PA going to identifiable non-cashsmartcardsfortransportation, Clansgian, 11/17/2008

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