tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13196976.post881863838549095163..comments2007-03-30T13:25:09.675-04:00Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386406270744275223noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13196976.post-76895276615560824592007-03-30T13:25:00.000-04:002007-03-30T13:25:00.000-04:00Neither do I (my use of "cured" was intended to convey that). I'm a wannabe hermit myself, and I certainly don't need medical attention.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386406270744275223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13196976.post-74801459809606082292007-03-30T06:54:00.000-04:002007-03-30T06:54:00.000-04:00Chris,<BR/><BR/>I don't look at "hermits" as necessarily having a mental illness. I collect photographs and information about New Hampshire and New England hermits, and I had the opportunity to meet one, Perley Sweat in the 1970s. <BR/><BR/>Great article by the way.<BR/><BR/>JJanicehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17476918537317701594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13196976.post-17736748991481850432007-03-29T00:35:00.000-04:002007-03-29T00:35:00.000-04:00It seems that every small and large town had at least one of these characters in its history. Modern psychiatric methods could probably have "cured" most of them.Chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01386406270744275223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13196976.post-55706914536243037792007-03-28T21:01:00.000-04:002007-03-28T21:01:00.000-04:00Here in Spokane, we had our own local character, <A HREF="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22willie+willey%22&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B2GGGL_enUS177US177" REL="nofollow">Willie Willey</A>, who wandered around town in the early part of the 1900s dressed in nothing but a pair of shorts (he added shoes in the winter). He always seemed to have a menagerie of wild and domestic animals with him as well.Miriamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12021845886261585678noreply@blogger.com