Payne Hollow Life

by Harlan Hubbard

The story of Harlan and Anna Hubbard, who started as shanty-boaters on the Ohio and Mississippi rivers: how they searched and years ago found a place on shore to settle. Designed by Freeman Keith. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091778829X
• ISBN13: 9780917788291
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Gnomon Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Payne Hollow

Harlan Hubbard continues his life story from Shantyboat. In Payne Hollow, you will read of 30 plus years of living by his own methods and means. This is Hubbard's version of Thoreau's Walden. A great book.

a story of simple life with the land

This is a wonderful book about life outside of normal hustle and bustle of modern life. Harlan and his wife, Anna, lived in Payne Hollow, and spent their time living from the land and with the land. They built their home, tended their garden, fished the river, and lived their lives there. It is in some ways a beautiful love story that reminded me of what it would be like to be a castaway on a desert island. But in this case, one is castaway in the hills of Kentucky, on the Ohio river. The book is really a journal of their lives there, and when reading it, one feels how simple yet full lives their lives were. From Harlan's rising early in the winter mornings to tend the goats, to the early passages about working by lantern light on simple tasks, to the way he wrote about the seasonal rhythms, I was taken with their story. I found that it was a tender book to read, and I found that the way they lived was so much more than the suburbanites. Harsher, perhaps, but more. The book has some sketches by Harlan, and some woodcuts. A great story.