Sent as a boy from the old Dutch country around Albany to the Brook Farm community at West Roxbury, Sears recalls its school, its entertainments and its oddities, the visits of Horace Greeley, and the turn to Fourier’s theories that transformed the experiment in its later years.
A warm, small-scale insider’s view of the utopian community that also drew Hawthorne, for anyone curious about American Transcendentalism. Download the free EPUB.