Payne Hollow

Nonfiction. Harlan Hubbard’s PAYNE HOLLOW: LIFE ON THE FRINGE OF SOCIETY provides an account of a self-made alternative lifestyle in early 1950’s America. Anna and Harlan Hubbard, refusing to adopt the industrial positioning provided, built a simple home at Payne Hollow and documented their “basic relationship of need to fulfillment within the carefully circumscribed wholeness of [their] honest, sensitive, extraordinary lives”–Edward Lueders. PAYNE HOLLOW creates its own self-referential world written as “a painter’s prose” that fills its environment with a Thoreau-esque “ecstasy…expressed with sober simplicity”–The Louisville Courier-Journal.