He's Lived 50 Years Off The Grid in Appalachia 🐿

[appalachiablue]

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- Meet Joe and hear his story of living simply and peacefully on the land in the mountains for half a century. He has a wealth of knowledge about plants, botany, gardening and herbal medicine that is remarkable. 🌿

Joe wants to share and pass along what he has learned about cultivating the land to future generations. We're fortunate to have such a wise and rare person who cares about the health & future of society. - (See positive comments, click on YouTube logo in video).
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- BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE was a private liberal arts college in Black Mountain, North Carolina. It was founded in 1933 by John Andrew Rice, Theodore Dreier, and several others. The college was ideologically organized around John Dewey's educational philosophy, which emphasized holistic learning and the study of art as central to a liberal arts education.

- Many of the college's faculty and students were or would go on to become highly influential in the arts, including *Josef & Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Robert Creeley, Merce Cunningham, Max Dehn, Elaine de Kooning, Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller, Walter Gropius, Ray Johnson, Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Charles Olson, Robert Rauschenberg, Mary Caroline Richards, Dorothea Rockburne, Michael Rumaker, Aaron Siskind & Cy Twombly.*

Although it was quite notable during its lifetime, the school closed in 1957 after 24 years due to funding issues; Camp Rockmont for Boys is now on the campus' site. The history & legacy of Black Mountain College are preserved & extended by the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in downtown Asheville, NC. Black Mountain was experimental in nature & committed to an interdisciplinary approach, prioritizing art-making as a necessary component of education & attracting a faculty & lecturers that included many of America's leading visual artists, composers, poets, & designers.

During the 1930s and 1940s the school flourished, becoming well known as an incubator for artistic talent. Notable events at the school were common; it was here that the 1st large-scale geodesic dome was made by faculty member Buckminster Fuller & students, where Merce Cunningham formed his dance company, & where John Cage staged his 1st musical happening. In the 1950s, the focus of the school shifted to the literary arts under the rectorship of Charles Olson. Olson founded The Black Mountain Review in 1954 and, together with his colleague & student Robert Creeley, developed the poetic school of Black Mountain poets...https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mountain_College

[bucolic_frolic]

1. He seems awfully well-informed for someone living off the grid for 50 years

No TV? No Internet? How does he know what's going on around the planet?

[appalachiablue]

2. Ik, yet Joe Hollis is probably far more active & aware than many Americans!

[rubbersole]

3. And constantly relaxed.

Sort of the epitome of living as a member of the top of the food chain. Joe is a life stud.

[appalachiablue]

4. He's great, knowledgeable, even tempered, sincere and peaceful.. A good man I think..

[Kali]

5. that is how I used to think about teevee and "the news"

nope. if you interact with other thinking human beings and pay attention you will learn all the important news just fine. you also won't be bogged down with the vast amounts of total bullshit. the internet is also full of bullshit but there is still good information available as well so to me it is much more like knowing good people whereas passive absorption of regular broadcast entertainment and/or "news" just seems to make people ignorant and less intelligent, not "more informed"

he has WWOOFers, they tend to be pretty well informed and are often international travelers.

also I didn't hear that he didn't have internet. all doable with solar and various rural wifi type setups.

[cbabe]

7. Solar panels for power for devices. Plus volunteers, visitors, travel. Off grid, not a hermit.

[OldBaldy1701E]

8. It says he lived 'off of the grid', not that he never left the house. (n/t)

[William769]

6. Very informative.

Thank you.