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Lost Utopias: A Brief Description of Three Quests for Happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, Old Shaker House and American Indian Museum

Lost Utopias: A Brief Description of Three Quests for Happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, Old Shaker House and American Indian Museum

O'Brien, Harriet E.

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ISBN10: 1169670725
ISBN13: 9781169670723
Publisher: Kessinger Pub Llc
Published: Sep 10 2010
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.25 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
Lost Utopias is a book that explores three different attempts at creating ideal societies in America. The author, Harriet E. O'Brien, provides a brief description of each of these communities: Alcott's Fruitlands, Old Shaker House, and American Indian Museum. Fruitlands was founded by Louisa May Alcott's father, Bronson, and was an attempt at creating a self-sufficient and communal way of life. Old Shaker House was a community of Shakers, a religious group known for their celibacy and communal living. Finally, the American Indian Museum was founded by a group of Native Americans who sought to preserve their culture and history. O'Brien delves into the successes and failures of each of these communities, and provides insight into the motivations behind their creation. This book is a fascinating look at the human desire for happiness and the lengths that people will go to in order to achieve it.1929. This work contains a brief description of three quests for happiness, Alcott's Fruitlands, Old Shaker House, and American Indian Museum rescued from oblivion, recorded and preserved by Clara Endicott Sears on Prospect Hill in the old township of Harvard, Massachusetts. Copiously illustrated throughout with gorgeous photos.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

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