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proud2BlibKansan

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Sat Jun 30, 2012, 11:22 PM Jun 2012

Carole Brown lives the simple life in a Flint Hills cabin

This is a really neat story. The Flint HIlls are absolutely beautiful and relatively uncivilized. I really admire what this woman is doing.




MATFIELD GREEN, KAN. -- In late December 1999, as a nervous nation fretted about what might happen if computers went haywire when they switched over to 2000, Carole Brown of Westwood Hills loaded her possessions into two station wagons and a pickup and caravanned with her parents and brother to her new home, a 12-by-17-foot cabin with no running water or electricity in a desolate corner of the Flint Hills in Kansas.

Brown, a classically trained bassist two days shy of turning 40, had no car and no cellphone — only a desire to remove herself from a civilization she felt out of sync with and a longing to steep herself in the beauty and comfort of nature.

The rancher who owns the land the cabin sits on figured she’d last six months, tops. Her friends gave her three months.

Twelve years later, she’s still there.

Read more here: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/06/29/3677621/the-simple-life-in-a-flint-hills.html#storylink=cpy
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Carole Brown lives the simple life in a Flint Hills cabin (Original Post) proud2BlibKansan Jun 2012 OP
Beautiful. Thanks for posting. cbayer Jul 2012 #1
Great read Shankapotomus Jul 2012 #2
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