In June of 1964, a burned-out California high school teacher and his poet wife packed up their children and all their worldly goods and headed for a small, wood-heated, unplumbed lakeshore cabin in the woods of central Minnesota. They wanted to change their lives. "Journeying Earthward" is the thirty-eight year chronicle of that change, full of "thunderstorms, tornadoes, droughts, blizzards, chainsaws, barbed wire, manure, lambing, weeding, egg-picking, canning, freezing, butchering, building..." It is a memoir of living, child-rearing, and writing counter to the prevailing popular trends. It is also a do-it-yourself book--how to build an earth-friendly house with your own materials, how to live richly with very little money, how to turn a deaf ear to people who tell you you're nuts. It is a love story--a man, a woman, a place, a family.

Journeying Earthward

Rylander, Edith

Rylander, John

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Journeying Earthward