Early in his life, Kentucky writer and
painter Harlan Hubbard saw clearly
that our industrial society could not de-
liver on its promises of human improve-
ment. In response he set himself apart
from industrial values, to !ive a life of
self-sufficiency based on more funda-
mental principles. By 1929, when he be-
gan keeping a joural, his differences
from the dominant assumptions of his
times were well established, along with
his interests in pa,inting writing, and
music, and in the Ohio River and its
tributaries and countryside,
In 1943 Harlan married Anna Eiken-
hout, and the following year they built
with their own hands a shantyboat on
which they would voyage down the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers, ending in
the Louisiana bayous in 1951. Fl~om
1952 until their deaths in 1986 and
1988, Anna and Harlan lived in a house
they built themselves at Payne Hollow
beside the Ohio River in Trimble Coun-
ty, Kentucky.
Harlan Hubbard s books--Shanty-
boat, Shantyboat on the Bayous, and
Payne Hollow--tell of their life during
those years, a life that was at once fru-
gal and abundant, solitary and hospita-
ble, fundamental and elegant, a life of
homemaking and handmaking. Togeth-
er they kept house, gardened, read aloud
to each other, made music, welcomed
guests. Harlan cut firewood, tended a
herd of goats, fished, and painted. His
books spoke eloquently to-the many
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