Simple Living would not have been possible without the support of many along the way. We are grateful to Pamela G. Dorman at Viking for her keen editorial eye and her strong guidance throughout. Paris Wald at Viking, too, was a helpful and perennially upbeat presence. Charlotte Sheedy, Elaine Markson and Geri Thoma deserve credit for their vital roles in the life of this project. We are delighted to work with Carolyn Sakowski and her staff at John F. Blair, Publisher, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, on this new edition of Simple Living.
The following people we wish to thank for their loyalty and love—the late Edmund Stephen Urbanski; Jane Urbanski Robbins; Marie Olesen Urbanski Whittaker and the late Joseph B. Whittaker; the late Sam and Miriam Lindsey Levering; Elizabeth Smith Lindsey and the late Alton Lindsey; Al and Betty Lindsey Wellons; Margaret Olesen Corbin; Ruth Olesen Kelley; Bill Van Hoy and the late Lois Levering Van Hoy; Ralph and Patty Webb Levering; Teresa Van Hoy; Montague Levering Kern; Betsy Levering Morgan; Merry Levering; Lou Lindsey; Virginia Levering Price and Tom and Sondra Upton Price. Thanks go to long-suffering and long-standing friends Bonni Kogen Brodnick; Liz Brody; Mal and Ellen Hoffs; Krysia Lindan; Stephanie von Hirschberg; Tison Lacy; Susan Christian; Tony Gittelson; Jamie Cabot; Howard Davis and Georgia Jones-Davis; Robin Brantley and Keith Love; Nick and Nancy Bragg; Pat Woltz; Copey Hanes; Burke Robertson; Ann L. Vaughn; Gene Rees; Bob and Helen Sekits; and Jamshid and Farzaneh Parvisi. We would like to thank the entire National Advisory Board for the Simple Living television series. We are delighted with the new friends the book helped us to make, and wish to thank the scores of people throughout the country who took us under their wing and into their confidence.