Hermits
A Wild Man of Alabama
Society does not tolerate outsiders and hermits very well.Source: The True Democrat (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania)16 Mar 1853, Wed Page 2
Posted By: Paul - Fri Jan 07, 2022 -
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Category: Regionalism, Vigilante Justice, Hermits, Dogs, Nineteenth Century
Dynamite Pete, Nebraska Hermit
A fascinating story in detail here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 29, 2020 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Hermits, Regionalism, North America, Twentieth Century
The Pepperell Family on Cotton Cay
A deservedly shortlived advertising campaign that seemed to equate wearing cotton clothing with the life of a shipwrecked family.
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Posted By: Paul - Wed May 22, 2019 -
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Category: Antisocial Activities, Advertising, Foreign Customs, Hermits, 1960s
Follies of the Madmen #275
Posted By: Paul - Fri Feb 19, 2016 -
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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Domestic, Hygiene, Hermits, 1960s, 1970s
Bernard Wheatley, Hermit
The man depicted above is Dr. Bernard Wheatley who, after the deaths of his family, chucked a flourishing career to live as a hermit on the Hawaiian island of Kauai.
Read a long and fascinating article about him here.
In 1957 Dr. Bernard Wheatley - an African American physician from the Virgin Islands - made a pilgrimage to Kalalau Valley. Distraught after the death of his wife and son in a car accident, he kept questioning the meaning of life and other ontological problems until the answers finally came. In a remarkable religious conversion-like revelation he realized that life is eternal. He abandoned his medical practice, sold all his worldly possessions and sought a quiet, secluded place where he could earnestly seek truth without distraction. He arrived on the remote Island of Kauai and after seeing Kalalau from a ridge-top lookout in Kokee, he knew that he had found his home.... He passed on December 3, 1991 at the age of 72. His ashes were spread in Kalalau.
Posted By: Paul - Wed Apr 10, 2013 -
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Category: Death, Religion, Hermits, 1950s, 1960s, South Pacific
Spruce Goose on the Loose
Read about its trip here.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 07, 2011 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Hermits, Transportation, 1940s
Nuns Behaving Badly
Read an interview with the author here.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Dec 05, 2010 -
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Category: Misbehavior, Rebellion, Acting-out and General Naughtiness, Religion, Nuns, Children, Books, Hermits, Sex
Castaway on the Moon
Looks like a film weird enough for us WU-vies.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Sep 26, 2010 -
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Category: Movies, Hermits, Asia
The Largest Terrestrial Arthropod
Posted By: Nethie - Tue May 19, 2009 -
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Category: Animals, Nature, Pets, Science, Hermits
The Old Leather Man
I'm eager to read The Old Leather Man when it appears in October from Wesleyan University Press. It sounds like prime historical weirdo material."In 1883, wearing a sixty-pound suit sewn from leather boot-tops, a wanderer known only as the Leather Man began to walk a 365 mile loop between the Connecticut and Hudson Rivers that he would complete every 34 days, for almost six years. His circuit took him through at least 41 towns in southwestern Connecticut and southeastern New York, sleeping in caves, accepting food from townspeople, and speaking only in grunts and gestures along the way. What remains of the mysterious Leather Man today are the news clippings and photographs taken by the first-hand witnesses of this captivating individual. The Old Leather Man gathers the best of the early newspaper accounts of the Leather Man, and includes maps of his route, historic photographs of his shelters, the houses he was known to stop at along his way, and of the Leather Man himself. This history tracks the footsteps of the Leather Man and unravels the myths surrounding the man who made Connecticut’s caves his home."
Posted By: Paul - Wed Jul 09, 2008 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Hermits, History, Historical Figure, Regionalism, Travel, Books
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