…not entirely sure why this title “came to me in the night” but Baron Wormser, a Maine resident and a fine poet, wrote a memoir titled The Road Washes Out in the Spring: A Poet’s Memoir of Living Off the Grid, and as the title suggests it is much about “living off the grid.” This is a very well written book, and a good study in self reliance, circa, 2009.
…also, here is a quick piece from the Boston Globe about what students have been reading at brother and sister institutions around the Northeast…