atchafalaya houseboat: my years in the louisiana swamp, a book by gwen roland with photographs by c.c. lockwood.
from NPR.org
"In the 1970s, Gwen Carpenter Roland was about to start work on her doctorate when she decided instead to live off the land -- and water -- in the Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp in south-central Louisiana.
With a box of crayons and the book How to Build Your Home in the Woods, Roland and her then-partner, Calvin Voisin, built a houseboat on a barge. They lived there for six years, with no electricity and no running water.
Read more, listen to the interview, see more of CC Lockwood's photographs HERE"
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Monday, June 9, 2008
atchafalaya houseboat
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