Willard: The Hermit of Gully Lake

In the 1940's American-born Willard (Kitchener) MacDonald jumped his troop train heading to WWII. Fearing authorities he lived as a Hermit deep in the northern wilderness of Nova Scotia, Canada for more than 60 years. This is the true story of The Hermit of Gully Lake, a man who lived a life that the rest of us could never endure. He was a soul in exile and yet you will discover that he touched the lives of so many, in ways that no one can really explain -- Willard became a Legend.

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• Willard
• Kitchener
• MacDonald
• Hermit
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• Gully
• Lake

[ilovemangolassi]

The surprising thing about this is that urban folks who got everything can easily be lonelier, unhealthier and unhappier than Willard.

[SustenanceNCovering]

@aguineapig The Nazi's did win. Hitler and a couple of his best friends lost, but overall the rest of them landed really good jobs in the states running the New World Order.

[ferdonandebull]

@ilovemangolassi you can do this!!!

[ferdonandebull]

@averunks There is no such thing as a substainable forest community

[averunks]

@gunmanscotland I agree! Hey let's go set up a sustainable forest community now ;)

[jmintube]

@Cytacon Jiddu Krishnamurti has taught us well.

[gunmanscotland]

This was a truely free man, fuck society and fuck the system, we should all go back to our roots and live in harmony with nature instead of against it.

[ferdonandebull]

@Cytacon lol. So how is this sick society affecting you? More people live better than in any time in history. You have your media circus people that may be considered profoundly sick i guess. But then if society is profoundly sick how do you come up with the standard of normal. Since of course you are a product of the society... Nope this guy was a nut bag....

[Cytacon]

@ferdonandebull being ''normal'' according to the standards of a profoundly sick society is no measure of sanity.

[EpsilonRanger]

I live like three hours from where he lived. I remember hearing stories about him when I was younger.

[CORRIGEEN71]

@ilovemangolassi so true