John Thomas Codman joined the Brook Farm community as a young man and here recalls both its phases, the Transcendental period of the school and farm and the later industrial phase under Fourierist ideas. He describes daily work, the Harbinger, plays, parlour life and fun, and the personalities, from George Ripley onward, who made the experiment memorable.
An affectionate insider’s record of America’s most famous utopian community. Download the free EPUB.