I like to take it in small doses to recharge. People usually know me as this big loud extrovert, yet I enjoy my share of solitude. Could it be that they are simply not stressed out by fellow humans? It wasn’t hard for me to understand Knight. We feel as they possess some secret wisdom. People have always been intrigued by hermits. It’s a wonderful story for the social distancing times. Knight was a master of the craft.įinkel interviewed Knight in prison and met him afterward, and did a great job at researching other hermits. People used to return to their cabins in the season only to find things mysteriously missing, without a trace of a break-in. Knight was known as the North Pond Hermit, becoming a local legend and a mythical creature, as he committed over 1000 burglaries into the summer cabins to survive over all those years. He lived there alone for twenty-seven years, secluded in complete solitude. It’s a narrative of Christopher Knight, who, at the age of 20 drove to Maine and disappeared into the forest. At the start of the pandemic of 2020, I read Michael Finkel’s book, The Stranger in the Woods, The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit.
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