Four
Seasons in Forgotten America
Logan Ward
“The
basic premise is this: If it didn’t exist in 1900, we will do without.” SEE YOU
IN A HUNDRED YEARS is the story of one family’s year in a farmhouse in Swoope,
Virginia, living as if it were 1900 and trying to simplify their lives. Years
of working long hours surrounded by technology, stress, and stranger had taken
their toll on Logan Ward and his wife Heather, and to save their marriage and
their sanity, Logan and Heather sold their belongings, packed up their
two-year-old son, and moved to a rundown farmhouse in the country without any
plans past surviving the year. Adventure travel writer Logan Ward chronicles
their year in 1900—what the move solved and what it didn’t, what they lost and
what they gained. As they struggle with recalcitrant livestock and
garden-destroying bugs, rain that won’t come and their own insecurities, they
discover a sense of community and a sense of themselves that changes not only
their marriage, but the entire Swoope, Virginia community. Lyrically told and
powerfully evocative, SEE YOU IN A HUNDRED YEARS is a memoir for our modern age
that struggles with today’s growing sense of disassociation and yearning to
escape the frenetic pace of daily life. It’s a different kind of travel
narrative, detailing not the dislocation of place, but time, and taking the read
to what may be the most lost world of all—our own past.
Available June 2007