this is my island (13. 498)

Aeon magazine directs our attention to a 1972 segment from the BBC documentary series Look, Stranger that portrays a more measured, conservative perspective of self-sufficiency and off-grid living (see also) with this tour of Herm, a small Channel Island (the perfect size) depopulated and fallen into disrepair during World War II, some twenty years into the experimental community after Major Peter Wood and his wife Jenny became tenants of the bailiwick (from the Old French for hermit) between Sark and Guernsey. Some of the utopian idealism seems to have faded but Helm is still held in trust to this day.