Looks like a hippie.
http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130806/NEWS/308060316
He got a building permit from the township to have a storage structure on the property, but then built a dwelling without first getting a zoning permit or certificate of occupancy from the township.
Over the years, authorities have responded to Newell's property as a result of neighbor complaints and on one occasion in 2009 found human fecal matter in buckets there, according to previous reports in the Pocono Record. The township determined he was improperly disposing of sewage with no septic system or permit for one.
In a previous article, Newell said he couldn't afford septic hookup fees.
"If I lose this property, I have nowhere else to go," Newell told the Pocono Record in June. "What they're doing to me, what they've been doing to me for so long, it's wrong."
Saylorsburg is a peculiar location. I don't want to make light of this atrocity, but there have been other incidents in this area over recent years. I recall some kind of animal farm controversy, and isn't there some kind of cult compound up around there?
I've driven by it many times on Rt. 33 which goes through Wind Gap, there in the foreground. There are a series of gaps in this long ridge including Lehigh Gap and the Delaware Gap, which accommodate rivers. Wind Gap, which lies between them, represents an ancient river which lost its hold on the ground and was elevated out of existence. It is a sort of gateway to the Poconos, and seems to be skewed slightly from the conventional by virtue of its geography.