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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

I think we need another name for Bob's kind of "survivalist."  Back in the 
70s I knew, and was recruited by, a bunch of *real* survivalists.  They 
weren't about fear, hoarding, guns and ammunition.  They were about being 
able to survive using their own talents and the talents of those they 
surrounded themselves with.  Yes, they had guns, to hunt.  They asked my 
best friend and I to join them and if we weren't interested in joining them 
(we weren't), they wanted us to teach them the stuff we knew -- canning, 
weaving, dying using plants, etc., candle making, soap making, butchering, 
gardening, etc (which we did for about a year).  The guns they knew as most 
of the men were retired military (Green Berets, Special Forces and a couple 
of SEALS).  They got a local farrier to teach them how to shoe a horse and 
how to work in metals.  Terra and I hooked them up with a friend who was a 
potter and he taught them how to find the right clays and how to throw 
dishes and bowls.  I got one of Elsie Allen's granddaughters to show them 
how to find and cure and weave baskets.

 They bought a couple of thousand acres and moved up in the Sierra 
foothills.  Last I heard, they were living completely off the grid, doing 
sustenance gardening and living off the land.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>

> THAT is the difference between a homesteader and a survivalist. You live 
> in
> an ugly world, Bob.
>
> Lynn Wigglesworth
> Tioga Co. PA
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