[Red Boots]

There is a book called “Trees” written years ago. I don’t even know if you can get a copy. It describes the early settlers and the problems they had living in so called pristine locations. The trees without enough sun caused deep depression among other problems.

I read that book- I believe it is part of a trilogy by Conrad Richter: the trees, the forest, the fields ?

Anyway, the forest canopy, which kept out all direct sunlight, did cause people to go crazy.

And the work described in clearing a simple field is almost unbelievable. They were very strong people, those people who made the fields of America. They'd sure not think much of us today, I'm afraid.

[freekitty]

You are right. They were strong; unlike the little green wimps of today.

[tbw2]

Another related book is “Back from the Land: How Young Americans Went to Nature in the 1970s and Why They Came Back” by Eleanor Agnew - a woman who went with her family to the land, how it collapsed, and coming back to the real world, along with interviews of others in the same situation