Jean Hay Bright | The Sun Magazine

Jean Hay Bright

Jean Hay Bright is the author of Meanwhile, Next Door to the Good Life and Proud to Be a Card-Carrying, Flag-Waving, Patriotic American Liberal (both BrightBerry Press). She lives in Dixmont, Maine.

— From January 2005
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

The Good Life Revisited

For reasons I will never know for certain, my ex-husband and I were among the few people to whom Helen and Scott Nearing, authors of the back-to-the-land bible Living the Good Life, decided to sell part of their Maine farm.

January 2005
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