George Bidwell

George Bidwell is a very famous writer lives in Poland for many years including eight years in what is now the Meditation Przesieka Center. George Bidwell is a Born on May 3, 1905 in Reading, UK. A writer for over 40 years of life spent in Poland, with the years 1961-1968 in Przesieka k / Jelenia Gora, wrote some 60 books, mainly biographies zbeletryzowanych most prominent figures in the history of England.
In 1960 Gorge dream about a farm in the countryside. From his friend he learned about opportunities to buy nice properties in the vicinity of Jelenia Gora. “We went – and succumbed to the charm Przesieka. From the standpoint of agricultural Przesieka not useful for much, except for sheep. But the widely scattered on the slopes of the beautiful valley of a mountain stream at an altitude of 500 m. above sea level, combines the features of the village, forest. Mountain and spa.

In 1961 Bidwellowie began rural life in Przesieka.
They bought “houses with typical architecture of mountainous, wood on a stone foundation, on a slope, sheltered from the north-east, to the four acres of grassland and two forest” and took care of sheep and cows, growing vegetables, and the judiciary. Experience farm writer columnist described the cycle, “notes the writer from the village,” published in the years 1961-1968 in the “Worker’s Gazette”, “we reported on them from week to week, our joys and disappointments, unlucky streak and small triumphs, wiping on the occasion of the bureaucracy in our rural and agricultural enterprises “(ibid, s.280-281). In Przesieka also wrote and published several new biographies.

Together with his wife, translator of all his books, he participated in many meetings of copyright in libraries, community centers, clubs and rural centers. “Sheep Manor” became a meeting place for people from different backgrounds: academic, literary, journalistic, “friends and acquaintances to visit us in droves, curious to see how it works in practice, a combination of professional literary work and the economy as a hobby” (ibid. p. 293).

Harsh living conditions, unfavorable climate, the large distance from major cities meant that in 1968 decided to leave Bidwellowie Przesieka. “Stay there, we learned a lot, not only of management but also for rural communities in Poland – her stubborn independence, combined with a developed sense of neighborly cooperation, its strong characters, its ingenuity and initiative … Sheep Manor przesiecki were leaving with the knowledge that this period of heightened beauty of our lives, as a particularly beautiful part of the whole.

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