Photo: C.C. Lockwood
I wandered upon an image from Gwen Carpenter Roland's Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp, and now can't wait to get my hands on this book and see more photos.
From NPR:
"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." I have a total romanticized view about this situation. The bed on a swing, a box of crayons, the 1970s with a hippy boyfried...all sounds dreamy. No running water...not so much.
Read an excerpt from the book or listen to the 2006 All Things Considered interview with Roland.
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