Westport Public Library BOOK blog

Have you ever daydreamed about “the good old days?” Do you think about the innovations of the 20th century and how much life has changed? In See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America, Logan Ward details his family’s escape from city life as they take a trip back in time. For a year, they lived as 1900 dirt farmers in rural Virginia. (No twentieth century technology allowed!) The challenges and rewards are recorded in this fascinating book.

Hear Logan Ward tell his story on Wednesday December 3 at 7:30 pm at the Library.

For more on the return to a simpler life:
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: a Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver
Another family- on- a- farm, this one focused on local food, healthy eating & the environment
• Back to Basics: How to Learn and Enjoy Traditional American Skills
DIY- from house to food to power to home economics
• Made from Scratch: Discovering the Pleasures of a Handmade Life by Jenna Woginrich
New skills include gardening & bee-keeping, as a city girl becomes a self-reliant Idaho farmer
• In Deep: Country Essays by Maxine Kumin
The Pulitzer Prize winning poet casts a luminous glow on her New Hampshire farm and its inspiring natural order of things
• The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm by Tim Barnwell
For the armchair time-traveler