A photograph taken around 1910 of the “Hermit of the Blue Mountains,” Benjamin Loeb, preparing his dinner. The visitor, at left, is Levi Ritzman, a storekeeper in Strausstown, Berks County, Pennsylvania.
Loeb set up camp along the Appalachian Trail near Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The area was generally known as a “no man’s land.”
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From “Old Time Photos,” West Schuylkill Herald, Tremont, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1950 via Newspapers.com.
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