In the 1970s, Gwen Carpenter Roland was about to start work on her doctorate when she decided instead to live off the land -- and water -- in the Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp in south-central ...

Though mysteries and thrillers dominated the East Baton Rouge Parish Library's most popular list this year, the runaway favorite was of a much more sedate nature. "Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in ...

Gwen Roland’s 2006 memoir "Atchafalaya Houseboat: My Years in the Louisiana Swamp" is the East Baton Rouge Parish Library’s One Book One Community selection for 2022. The goal of One Book One ...

In the late 1970s, Roland and Calvin Voisin made a decision to live a pleasantly isolated life: they constructed a houseboat in Louisiana's Atchafalaya River Basin Swamp, caught their own food and ...

The Atchafalaya is a mysterious land, as much underwater as above. Its lush environment is home to alligators, egrets, black bears – and for a time two people who yearned for a simple, natural life.

In the 1970s, Gwen Roland decided to live off the land — and water — in the Louisiana swamp. She and her partner lived on a houseboat they... Memories of Life on an 'Atchafalaya Houseboat' In the ...