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Reflections of Walden; Sweet Little Essays From a Georgia Cabin

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From: The Washington Post
Date: 19971021
Author:David Nicholson

GOING TO GROUND Simple Life on a Georgia Pond By Amy Blackmarr Viking. 170 pp. $22.95 Like Henry David Thoreau, another sojourner in another cabin beside another pond, Amy Blackmarr decided one day that she needed "to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." Accordingly, she sold her paralegal business, left Kansas and came home to Georgia, where she spent several years living in an old fishing cabin near a pond on her grandparents' farm.

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