Restless Souls - Leigh Eric Schmidt

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isolation and gratify their curiosity, and Sarah Bishop, likewise, attracted those looking for a good excursion, a double marvel as “a woman hermit.” At the end of one pamphlet from 1815 titled “Remarkable Discovery of an American Hermit,” Captain James Buckland even offered to provide “particular directions for any one to go and find the Hermit, and satisfy his own curiosity” about this mournful soul and his hidden cave. The architect Harriet Morrison Irwin in her fictional tale The Hermit of Petræa had her title character remark that if Yankee travelers were to get wind of “the charmed word hermit…I should soon find myself driven out of this dear retreat of mine by sight-seers and sensation-mongers.” Not surprisingly, one of Thoreau's visitors at Walden suggested that he needed to have on display in his cabin “a book in which visitors should write their names, as at the White Mountains.” Would solitude be solitude without a log of witnesses, travelers, and guests? Would solitude be recognizable without intrusion and interruption?13

      So travel, voyeurism, and curiosity provided a point of departure toward Thoreau's Transcendentalist crossroads. The hermit's cave or cabin was an attraction that carried the sensational appeal of secretiveness and mystery. One of the many nineteenth-century loners of the Adirondacks, a region rich in its interweaving of travel guides and hermit lore, doubled in the summer as a concessionaire for tourists. That did not disqualify Stewart Wilson from his reputation as the Hermit of Sacandaga Park–an embodiment of an aimless rusticity that only added to his allure for visitors. The Adirondacks, to be sure, became one of the great and lasting sources of tales about hermits and hermitages, and the park still retains that image. It is a place where hermits lurk on the edges of a visitor's peregrinations and imagination. As Sue Halpern writes at the opening of Migrations to Solitude: The Quest for Privacy in a Crowded World (1992), “Deep among the birch, some miles back from my house in the Adirondack Mountains, is a cabin where a man is said to have lived alone for a quarter century, maybe longer. Then one day, the story goes, he walked out of the woods and disappeared.” In writing her own meditations on solitude, she looked for that man in prisons and monasteries to talk to him about his experience “as a physical fact,” but, in a poetic deferral that only heightens the air of mystery and desire, she (of course) never finds him.14

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