See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America

See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America
by Logan Ward

See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America
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Author: Logan Ward
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-06-01
ISBN: 1933771151
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Benbella Books

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Book Review: Read this and leave "life as it used to be" to the pros
Summary: 4 Stars

I became interested in this book because it was featured in my Vanderbilt alumni magazine. It made a great article, and it makes a great book. I gobbled it up in a weekend. It is fascinating to see how the author and his family adjust to life without electricity, running water, toilets and baths, air conditioning, and all of those fabulous inventions of the 20th century. Logan and Heather's lives quickly separate by gender, with Heather doing more of the inside work (cooking, cleaning, child care) and Logan doing more of the outside work (caring for livestock, tending the garden, dealing with the draft horse). I would have liked to have read more from Heather's point of view, but we get glimpses of her side of the story now and again, especially on the day they decide to switch roles. This is a wonderful book for those who enjoyed the PBS series 1900 House (or any of those iterations)and anyone who contemplates "getting back to the way things used to be."

Summary of See You in a Hundred Years: Four Seasons in Forgotten America

To save their marriage and their sanity, the author and his wife sold their belongings, packed up their two-year-old son, and moved to a rundown farmhouse in the country without any plans past surviving the year. Living as though it were the year 1900, they struggled with recalcitrant livestock, garden-destroying bugs, rain that would not come, and their own insecurities, to ultimately discover a sense of community and a sense of themselves that changed not only their marriage, but the entire Swoope, Virginia community. Lyrically told and powerfully evocative, this memoir for the modern age deals with the growing sense of disassociation and yearning to escape the frenetic pace of daily life in today’s society.

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