Sifting the past Dig finds clues to the history of Brook Farm site From: The Boston Globe | Date: August 8, 1991| Author: Helen E. Jung, Contributing Reporter | Copyright (null) The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

After almost a year of digging on the West Roxbury site of the 19th-century Brook Farm commune, two archeologists and their students have turned up 6,000-year-old projectile points, a circa-1970s Muhammad Ali watch and glimpses into the daily life at the utopian community that briefly flourished there.

Group members held a news conference yesterday to say they had discovered the foundations of the "Hive," the commune's original dormitory, kitchen and dining room, and put to rest a lo...

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