![]() ![]() It’s her sole regular outing, and while there, she speaks the fewest number of words possible. On Mondays, Vesta visits the nearby town of Bethsmane for supplies. She has no phone and no Internet connection she writes no letters because she has no friends to correspond with. Wrinkles have reshaped her face so that the skin near her temples looks “like a blanket thrown over a carved mahogany chair.” And she eschews human contact. “I was gorgeous.”īut she is 72 years old now. “I used to dress in such a way, people wanted to take my picture,” she recalls. When she was young, she had soft black hair that contrasted with her stunning blue eyes, and she enjoyed drawing attention. In its previous life, it hosted campers gathered to share meals and learn arts and crafts, but Vesta lives there alone, save for the company of her dog, Charlie, and the cremated remains of her husband, Walter. Her home, located outside of the tiny post-industrial town of Levant, is a cabin near the edge of a lake. Vesta Gul lives on 12 remote acres of forest that were once part of a Girl Scout summer camp. ![]()
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