Chapter 14 - The Lost World by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
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Slab City, a trailer park utopia, thrives in remote desert
SLAB CITY, Calif. — Penny Puckett came to Slab City and fell in love.
After four years of "bumming around and hopping freight trains," the 25-year-old from Kansas City, Mo., arrived at this hardscrabble section of the Imperial Valley desert and immediately embraced its sense of liberation from society's rules and norms.
What others might view as desolation and deprivation, Puckett saw as a way to reduce life to its essence: water, food and shelter (plus Internet and cellular phone service).
"Slab City people have a great need to live with just the bare necessities and are happy about it," she said.
Puckett also met and married the man of her dreams: a T-shirt artist who lives in an art colony-style portion of Slab City known as East Jesus. A videotape was made of the couple's Halloween nuptials and shipped to Puckett's family.
The couple have yet to devise a long-term plan. But for the time being Slab City suits them just fine.
There are no municipal services, no streetlights and no water or sewage services. But nobody charges rent or collects fees or tries to impose homeowner covenants.
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2012 is The End! It's the Beginning! … Or it's just another year. A lot of people, from various walks of life, think that something big is about to happen. In the past year, a fundamentalist Christian radio personality name Harold Camping got not one, but two, 15 minutes of fame for casting predictions that the world ... |
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Victim discusses case against St. Cloud diocese, former deacon A message left today for Carle, who lives in St. Cloud and continues to run a counseling service, was not immediately returned. Weber has not returned repeated messages left for him seeking his comment. The lawsuit alleges that the diocese failed to ... |
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Slab City, a trailer park utopia, thrives in remote desert A plan to sell the site to a San Diego developer in the 1990s fell through; so did an idea by Imperial County to turn it into an RV camping ground. Now that the state is broke, Slab City is out of sight and out of mind, just the way its residents like ... |
Matthew Norman's review of the year (and a few predictions for 2012)
So relentlessly did 2011 register on the Richter Scale, literally and figuratively, that the 90-year-old American pastor Harold Camping may be excused his error in assuring followers that the world would end on May 22. Even by early summer, ...
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The 12 Most Hopeful Trends to Build On in 2012 These efforts make it possible that 2012 will be a year of transformation and rebuilding — this time, with the well-being of all life front and center. Sarah van Gelder wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization ... |