Copyright © Frank Levering and Wanda Urbanska, 1992
All rights reserved

First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin, 1992
First John F. Blair, Publisher, edition published in 2003

Grateful acknowledgement is made for permission to reprint an excerpt from “The Manifestation” from The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke.
Copyright © 1959 by Beatrice Roethke, Administratrix of the estate of Theodore Roethke. Used by permission of Doubleday, a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Levering, Frank.

Simple living : one couple’s search for a better life / by Frank Levering and Wanda Urbanska ; foreword by Linda Fuller.

      p.      cm.

Originally published: New York, N.Y. : Viking, 1992. With new foreword.

ISBN 0-89587-289-7 (alk. paper)

1. Farm life—Virginia—Orchard Gap. 2. Orchards—Virginia—Orchard Gap. 3. Levering, Frank. 4. Urbanska, Wanda, 1956- I. Urbanska, Wanda, 1956- II. Title.

S521.5.V8L48 2003
630'.9755’714—dc21

2003012179