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1854 Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is published. 1872 John Burroughs leaves Washington, DC, to take up a life of farming and writing in West Park, New York. 1896 John Burroughs completes the building of his cabin Slabsides and begins living there annually from March to December. 1905 Scott Nearing builds his first cabin and grows his first organic garden at the single-tax community of Arden, Delaware. 1907 Bolton Hall publishes Three Acres and Liberty; in 1908 Hall publishes A Little Land and a Living, foreword by Ralph Borsodi’s father, William Borsodi. 1920 Ralph Borsodi and his family leave New York City and establish their first homestead in Rockland County, New York. 1929 Ralph Borsodi publishes This Ugly Civilization. 1932 Helen and Scott Nearing purchase their first Vermont homestead , making it their primary residence in 1935. 1934–35 The School of Living starts up in Suffern, New York, becoming fully established in 1936. 1938 Henry Tetlow publishes We Farm for a Hobby and Make It Pay. 1942 Louis Dickinson Rich publishes We Took to the Woods. xxix A HOMESTEADING TIME LINE 1944 Carolyn and Ed Robinson publish The Have More Plan, based on their homesteading experiment in Norwalk, Connecticut, begun in 1942. 1945 Bradford and Vena Angier read Walden and leave Boston for a life in British Columbia, publishing At Home in the Woods in 1951. 1948 Louis Bromfield publishes Malabar Farm. 1949 Aldo Leopold publishes A Sand County Almanac. 1952 Following a shanty boat trip down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers that began in 1943 and lasted eight years, Harlan and Anna Hubbard build a house in Payne Hollow along the Ohio River in Kentucky. 1954 Helen and Scott Nearing’s Living the Good Life is self-published. 1964 Wendell Berry leaves New York City and reinhabits the LongLegged House part-time while teaching at the University of Kentucky. 1968 The members of Total Loss Farm settle in Vermont, publishing their collected writings in Home Comfort in 1973. 1970 The Mother Earth News is launched. Living the Good Life is republished. 1973 Gene Logsdon publishes Homesteading: How to Find Independence on the Land, to be followed by a series of homesteading books. 1974 Payne Hollow, by Harlan Hubbard, is published. 1970s Helen and Scott Nearing build their last stone house in Maine, when Scott is in his nineties and Helen is in her seventies. 1983 Scott Nearing dies at age one hundred. 1987 Wendell Berry publishes Home Economics. 1995 Helen Nearing dies at age ninety-one. The Good Life Center is established to preserve the Nearings’ legacy and promote sustainable living. 2003 William Coperthwaite publishes A Handmade Life. xxx A Homesteading Time Line ...

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