1. No longer the two of us
2. When we two met
3. Scott the exemplar
4. Helen the free spirit
5. Young impressionable Krishnamurti
6. Both of us together
7. We take to the woods of Vermont
8. Moving on to Maine
9. Queries and comments
10. Twilight and evening star
Helen Nearing left city life with her husband, Scott, nearly sixty years ago to move first to Vermont and then to their farm in Harborside, Maine. The Nearings' food and living philosophies have provided the guidelines for many who seek a simpler way of life.
Library Journal-
This quiet and reserved memoir is a tribute to the "good life" and
the ideals of self-sufficiency, simplicity, socialism, and pacifism
that Helen and Scott Nearing shared for 53 years. Helen was 24
years old in 1928 when she met Scott, a married 45-year-old
economics professor who had been blacklisted by universities and
publishers for his radical views. In 1932, the Nearings left New
York City for a Vermont farm, beginning the homesteading life
described in their Living the Good Life (1954), the bible of the
back-to-the-land movement. Later, they moved to Maine where, during
the 1960s and 1970s, they played host to 2000 visitors a year. For
Scott and Helen, old age was a "time of fulfillment. Scott kept his
strength and bearing all through his last decades." But as he
neared his 100th birthday in 1983, he chose to leave the good life
peacefully by fasting. Helen is a modest narrator, at times so
self-effacing that she switches into third person as when she
discusses her relationship with the Indian philosopher Jiddu
Krishnamurti. Still, her eloquent chapter on death and old age and
her loving portrait of a remarkable man makes this a recommended
purchase for public libraries.
*Wilda Williams*
"One of the most beautiful love stories ever written..."
--Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Library Journal-
This quiet and reserved memoir is a tribute to the "good life" and
the ideals of self-sufficiency, simplicity, socialism, and pacifism
that Helen and Scott Nearing shared for 53 years. Helen was 24
years old in 1928 when she met Scott, a married 45-year-old
economics professor who had been blacklisted by universities and
publishers for his radical views. In 1932, the Nearings left New
York City for a Vermont farm, beginning the homesteading life
described in their Living the Good Life (1954), the bible of the
back-to-the-land movement. Later, they moved to Maine where, during
the 1960s and 1970s, they played host to 2000 visitors a year. For
Scott and Helen, old age was a "time of fulfillment. Scott kept his
strength and bearing all through his last decades." But as he
neared his 100th birthday in 1983, he chose to leave the good life
peacefully by fasting. Helen is a modest narrator, at times so
self-effacing that she switches into third person as when she
discusses her relationship with the Indian philosopher Jiddu
Krishnamurti. Still, her eloquent chapter on death and old age and
her loving portrait of a remarkable man makes this a recommended
purchase for public libraries.
"One of the most beautiful love stories ever written..." --Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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