There was no electricity, no running water, no telephone and no road leading to Anne LaBastille’s remote property in New York’s Adirondack wilderness. In 1964, LaBastille, a wildlife ecologist, writer and conservationist, built a tiny 12-by-12-foot log cabin on the shore of Twitchell Lake. Far from modern conveniences, she created a life centered on nature, solitude and self-reliance.
Her experience eventually became the basis for Woodswoman, the celebrated memoir published in 1976, and a series of books documenting her extraordinary life in the Adirondacks.
