Posted on 08/10/2013 8:25:41 AM PDT by don-o
TRIPLETT, N.C. (AP) -- The way Eustace Conway sees it, there's the natural world, as exemplified by his Turtle Island Preserve in the Blue Ridge Mountains. And then there's the "plastic, imitation" one that most other humans inhabit.
But the border between the two has always been a porous one.
When he bought his first 107 acres in 1987, Conway's vision for Turtle Island was as "a tiny bowl in the earth, intact and natural, surrounded by pavement and highways." People peering inside from nearby ridges would see "a pristine and green example of what the whole world once looked like."
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Bump good article.
Welcome to the grand illusion.
Personally I suspect the show about the Lee family in Alaska is a bit more realistic but also suspect there’s more than meets the eye.
Is that a drive by dismissal of some sort; or do you have a point to make?
M4L
Just that these shows are mostly crap and at least this guy is more or less honest about it off camera.
At the end of the day he’s another aging hippie with a few good points about government and hypocrisies to match.
Sometimes it’s not good to appear on a reality show. Then everybody can see what you’re doing and the scrutiny will surely follow. Just waiting for the shoe to drop on the Lee’s in Alaska.
I doubt Alaska will do anything to the Lee’s. It’s different up there and anyone who has seen backwoods cabins up there knows very few are up to any kind of code.
Living in Alaska, knowing people who live in the bush, or who have lived in the bush; they are more than likely the real deal.
This makes perfect sense.
But also people have to realize that when they're watching a "reality show" that it's not really reality - they are seeing it through the lense of a TV camera, not their own eyes.
Lots of rural areas are the same. If you can stay under the radar you can get away with a lot.
I could show you places in northern Michigan where people live in hunting shacks that would never pass “official” muster as permanent dwellings but as long as the people living there keep a low profile, no one bothers them.
My first summer living up there I lived in a house trailer sitting on its wheels with no water or electricity. We used a porta crapper, an extension cord, and a garden hose to get by. If I had wanted to heat it with wood for the winter we could have but I wasn’t going to keep my girlfriend and kids there like that over the winter so we rented a house near town.
Bttt
Agreed. The issue may be some “offical” or epa wack job sees them and doesn’t like it. Stirring up silt with the cattle crossing the streams or some crap. Driving their 4 wheelers on the beach running over and endangered clam. You know what I mean.
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