Survival Homestead

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Let’s face it: The news these days can be a little depressing.

People can’t drive because gas is too expensive, the price of food is skyrocketing, families are losing their homes, the stock market is tanking and the Arctic ice caps might be melting, plunging the planet into serious trouble.

A lot of people take in all this news, shrug it off and just push on with life.

But not everyone.

Watch the story tonight on “Nightline” at 11:35 ET.

At the Tom Brown Tracking, Nature and Wilderness Survival School in Waretown, N.J., they’re preparing for the worst. The school attracts people from every corner of the nation who want to learn how to build a fire, make stone tools and absorb an American Indian lifestyle and philosophy.

Brown said the word “survivalist” conjures “images of a bunker stocked with food and ammunition, or a soldier, or some dirtbag suffering on a glacier.”

But he says that couldn’t be further from the truth.

“Survival is like the garden of Eden. It’s like going home,” he said.

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