Oi Polloi

Alone in the Wilderness

Published: Mon Mar 26 2012

We may or may not have posted this before, so if we haven’t — here it is, and if we have — here it is again.

Retirement does strange things to people — some people go on cruises, some take up zumba, and some, like Dick Proenneke, go off to the Alaskan wilderness, build themselves a cabin and live on their own for the next thirty years.