![]() Taking out wooden bowls and handing them to my mother, Sue, to put on the patio for lunch. Opening kitchen cabinets painted with Dutch children in bright embroidered dresses and pointed shoes. Her own hands were the color of onion skins, darkened with liver spots, and ever in motion. WE MUST HAVE asked our neighbor Helen to read our hands that day. ![]() Their daughter, Melissa, writes about her parents' attempt at paradise and her unusual childhood in the new memoir " This Life Is In Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, And A Family Undone."īook Excerpt: This Life Is In Your Hands: One Dream, Sixty Acres, And A Family Undone ![]() But the grueling nature of the work, emotional rifts, and the accidental death of one of their children caused the couple's dream to unravel. The farm thrived, drew media attention and apprentices, who wanted to emulate the Colemans' lifestyle. In 1968, Eliot and Sue Coleman were inspired by the work of homesteaders Scott and Helen Nearing to renounce their well-to-do upbringings, move to an isolated farm in Maine, and live off the land by growing organic produce. Facebook Email This article is more than 12 years old. ![]()
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