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From
the Dust Jacket...
Logan Ward and his wife,
Heather, had traveled the world—Kenya, France, Peru.
But nothing compared to their next adventure: a trip back in
time, living the life of dirt farmers in rural Virginia circa
1900.
Disillusioned by city life,
the Wards pulled their son out of daycare and traded skyscrapers
for silos in search of simpler times. Adopting strict rules
that limited them to only the tools that were available at
the turn of the century, they faced a year of struggles, where
unremarkable feats—putting food on the table, attending
a neighbor’s 4th of July party—became the worthiest
accomplishments of their lives.
With no phone, no computer,
and few distractions aside from irritable livestock and a plague
of garden pests, Logan and Heather began to reconnect and rebuild
their fractured marriage. More than that, they found what they
didn’t know they were looking for—community. As
the skepticism of neighbors and family turned to admiration,
the Wards developed a network of support and love bound by
neither time nor technology. By renouncing everything from
cell phones to supermarkets they discovered what’s important
in life, whether a hundred years ago or a hundred years in
the future.
Logan’s chronicle
of the Wards’ four seasons in the farming community of
Swoope is an honest and compelling account of one family’s
struggle to reclaim their lives from our fast-paced, materialistic
society—a memoir for our modern age. See
You in a Hundred Years is
for anyone who has ever daydreamed about the good old days—and
wondered how good they really were. |
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