Payne Hollow: Life on the Fringe of Society - Paperback

by Harlan Hubbard (Author)

Nonfiction. Harlan Hubbard's PAYNE HOLLOW: LIFE ON THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY provides an account of a self-made alternative lifestyle in early 1950's America. Anna and Harlan Hubbard, refusing to adopt the industrial positioning provided, built a simple home at Payne Hollow and documented their "basic relationship of need to fulfillment within the carefully circumscribed wholeness of [their] honest, sensitive, extraordinary lives"--Edward Lueders. PAYNE HOLLOW creates its own self-referential world written as "a painter's prose" that fills its environment with a Thoreau-esque "ecstasy...expressed with sober simplicity"--The Louisville Courier-Journal.

Author Biography

Harlan Hubbard (1900-1988) was an American artist and writer who, along with his wife, Anna, embraced a simple, self-sufficient life along the Ohio River. Renowned for his books Shantyboat and Payne Hollow, Hubbard's work and lifestyle advocate for simplicity, environmental stewardship, and a deep connection with nature. Hubbard's life and work have been the subject of numerous books and documentary films.