Out of the cave and onto Facebook – the life of a modern hermit

By Neil Hall and Angus Berwick MARKET RASEN, England (Reuters) – Like any good hermit Rachel Denton rises early in the morning to tend to her vegetable garden, feed her chickens, and pray. Unlike other hermits, such as a man discovered in 2013 living in a wood in the United States having spent 27 years without any human contact, Denton has embraced the Internet age. “The myth you most often face as a hermit is that you should have a beard and live in a cave, none of which is me,” she said, sat in her simple red-brick house near Market Rasen, a Lincolnshire village ringed by rolling green countryside.

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Out of the cave and onto Facebook – the life of a modern hermit