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Interesting Story In the Smithsonian about a family cut off from society and how they lived. The picture of the terraced hill side is impressive.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/For-40-Years-This-Russian-Family-Was-Cut-Off-From-Human-Contact-Unaware-of-World-War-II-188843001.html

http://stranniki.blogspot.co.uk/2009/02/how-to-live-substantively-in-our-times.html

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Handful of seeds, some tools, and a LOOM! Lots of lessons in there.

"You must be the change you want to see in the world." "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." --Mahatma Gandhi
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Great story! It sounded to me as though they did not know much about ancestral skills and were actually pretty lucky to have survived.
 
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