Anna Hubbard

"For forty-three years Anna Hubbard (1902-1986) and her husband, Kentucky painter and writer Harlan Hubbard (1900-1988), lived a splendidly civilized life that was also simple and close to nature. Early in their marriage they made a long, adventurous drifting journey down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers in a shantyboat. "Far from leaving anything behind," Anna wrote of that trip years later, "we took with us all that was most worthwhile out of our previous living." Harlan wrote, in his books and journals, of the shantyboating years and his settling with Anna in 1952 on the Trimble County,…