John and Geri McPherson, authors of “Naked into the Wilderness” and “Primitive Skills, applied and advanced” are coming to Dirttime 2010. We are pleased to have them come to our event.
Interest in outdoor living, self suffiency and primitive (Indian) skills, has been life long for both of them. John’s first “real” hands on practicing of primitive skills began in 1973 – motivated after reading OUTDOOR SURVIVAL SKILLS by Larry Dean Olson. Geri has been dabbling in “homesteading” skills (making soap & whatever) since the late ’60’s. They met and married in 1987.
For some time, much of the year was spent living out of a tipi – gypsy like – from one rendezvous to another – May till September – until the very late ’80’s when they switched audiences a bit and began teaching at more “primitive” gatherings and museums. Tho this cut back on their tipi Gypsy life a bit, they found themselves spending more time in the outdoors through the classes that they held.
You can find them at prairiewolf.net