Payne Hollow Journal

by Harlan Hubbard, Don Wallis

"An intimate and inspiring testament by Kentucky's own Thoreau, Hubbard's journals record a life lived in harmony with nature. The third and climactic volume, Payne Hollow Journal, contains entries from the years he and his wife, Anna, lived at their Payne Hollow home along the Ohio River's Kentucky shore."

Hardcover

First published August 15, 1996

Reviews

[JD Waggy · Rating 2 out of 5]

THANK GOD, I HAVE FINALLY FINISHED MY BOSS'S ASSIGNED WORKS OF HARLAN HUBBARD.
This is the best of the three, I think, because it's the one with the most insight into Hubbard as a person instead of his liking for trees and the way water swirls in the river. However, you soon see that the person is a bit of a misanthropic jackass who is filled with arrogance juxtaposed with self-disdain and a really, really strong, nearly co-dependent relationship with his paintings. If I hadn't had to read this for work, I would never have gone past the first few entries, but if you have to read a Hubbard book, choose this one. Bravo to the editor for laying out entries by seasons instead of years, though, that was a really great choice and made the book flow a lot better.

[Johns · Rating 5 out of 5]

The prose written here by this conservationist homesteader is almost poetry.