Listen to the article "The Burning Town"
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My Side of the MountainSam Gribley leaves his home in New York City to live on his great-grandfather’s land in the Catskill Mountains. He leaves New York in May with only a pen knife, a ball of cord, an ax, flint and steel, and forty dollars. No one believes that he will stay in the wilderness. When he arrives in the mountains, he finds his great-grandfather’s land and makes a home in an old hemlock tree. He learns about his environment by observing the animals, doing research in the library, and by undergoing the processes of trial and error. He traps and forages for food, makes his own clothes, and hunts with a pet falcon. When winter comes, he lives on the food that he stored during the summer months. During the year, he meets people lost in the woods who later return to visit him. Through his experiences in the Catskill Mountains, Sam becomes a self-sufficient, resourceful survivor living in the wild.
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