The Road Washes Out in Spring: A Poet's Memoir of Living Off the Grid

A new edition of an evergreen back-to-nature book in the tradition of Thoreau.

For nearly twenty-five years, poet Baron Wormser and his family lived in a house in Maine with no electricity or running water. They grew much of their own food, carried water by hand, and read by the light of kerosene lamps. They considered themselves part of the “back to the land” movement, but their choice to live off the grid was neither a statement nor a protest: they simply had built their house too far fr...