Reviving Artemis: The Making of a Huntress
Finding a Place in the Natural World
Reviving Artemis is the unlikely story of a woman raised in mid-twentieth-century suburbia, then lived in New York City as a young adult, and moved to Vermont in 1984. For more than thirty years, she raised domestic livestock, kept bees, and cultivated fruits and vegetables while teaching literature and telling stories. But when she turned sixty, something shifted. Luskin was overtaken by a primal urge to step out of the garden, off the blazed trails, and into untracked forest by learning to hunt deer.
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Into the Wilderness
Could there be two people more different?
It’s 1964, and Rose Mayer is recently widowed, a Democrat, and Jewish. When she meets Percy Mendell, a born and bred Vermonter, who has never married and never voted for a Democrat, they clash before a surprising romance springs up, challenging all of the status quos. At age 64, they both must employ their humor, wit and compassion to even consider the other. Set against the backdrop of Vermont’s changing season and voraciously opinionated population, Into the Wilderness is both a love story and a testament to the surprising flexibility of the human heart.
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Deborah Lee Luskin
Deborah Lee Luskin moved from New York City to Vermont in 1984 to write, garden, keep bees, and raise daughters. Luskin has been an editorial columnist, radio commentator, pen-for-hire, and blogger. Her first novel, Into the Wilderness, won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Regional Fiction. Luskin has also enjoyed a long career as an educator, teaching writing and literature-based humanities to gifted elementary writers, college students, new adult readers, life-long learners, healthcare workers, and prison inmates. She holds a PhD in English Literature and expected to become an academic, not a deer hunter. She lives in Vermont with her husband, their dog, usually a cat, and a variable number of chickens.
Living In Place
Summer Solstice
On this Summer Solstice, I've dug into my archives for Hum Time, an essay that appeared in July/August issue of Vermont Magazine in 1992, when the world was young and green. HUM TIME Hail the Summer Solstice! It's the longest day of the year, the beginning of summer...
Vermonter By Choice: Anne Black & The Warrior Connection
Vermonters By Choice is an occasional column about people who, like Ethan Allen, came to Vermont from away. After living in Vermont for the past thirty years, Anne Black says, “I don’t want to live anywhere else.” It’s a place that she finds both profoundly spiritual...
Blame the Weather
This isn’t the post I’d planned for today, and you could blame the weather. It stopped raining long enough over the weekend that I weeded the garden. And then it rained again, hard and cold. I fired up the woodstoves both in my studio and the house, and cooked hearty...
