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Brook Farm

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Brook Farm 1841-47, an experimental farm at West Roxbury, Mass., based on cooperative living. Founded by George Ripley , a Unitarian minister, the farm was initially financed by a joint-stock company with 24 shares of stock at $500 per share. Each member was to take part in the manual labor in an attempt to make the group self-sufficient. Intellectual life was stimulating, with such members as Nathaniel Hawthorne , John S. Dwight, Charles A. Dana , and Isaac Hecker , and such visitors as Ralph Waldo Emerson , W. E. Channing , Margaret Fuller , Horace Greeley , and Ore... Read more
Brook Farm
Brook Farm, cooperative community (1841–47...forming a stock company under the name Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education...Occupations included the tilling of the farm, industrial employments, and school teaching... Read more
Brook Farm (Institute of Agriculture and Education)
...the U.S. in the mid-19th century, Brook Farm was to combine the thinker and the...excellent school. Oneida Community . Brook Farm (Institute of Agriculture and Education) Brook Farm (Institute of Agriculture and Education... Read more

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After the touch-up, whither utopia? For Brook Farm, no solid plans, just dreams
; ...ROXBURY The only building left at Brook Farm recently got some badly needed repairs...1841 and disbanded six years later, Brook Farm is probably the best known cooperative...transcends the reach of the senses - Brook Farm attracted some of the giants of American... Read more
Gill, Brook Hollow Farm earn top honors
; ...Creston; Walnut Hill Farm, Orrville. Four Year Old & Over -- Brook Hollow Farms, West Salem...Intermediate Calf -- Starmark Farm, Wooster; Brook Hollow Farms, West Salem...West Salem; Glenellen Farm, Marshallville. Senior Yearling -- Brook Hollow Farms, West Salem... Read more
Brook Hill Farm was known for specialty milk
; Close to Home Brook Hill Farm was known for specialty milk By LORAYNE...in Genesee Depot that would become Brook Hill Farm. Although it was an operating farm...1973 that the remaining 936 acres of Brook Hill Farm would be offered for sale. Today... Read more
WEST ROXBURY MDC STILL EYEING BROOK FARM DUKAKIS BUDGET PLAN WILL CARRY $3M TO BID FOR LONG-SOUGHT PARCEL
; Brook Farm in West Roxbury, once home to a 19th-century...will include $3 million for the purchase of Brook Farm in a capital outlay budget for open-space...last year. A $2.1 million bond issue for Brook Farm's purchase was passed in 1974 but expired... Read more
Hundreds gather at Brook Farm to celebrate ideas that inspired it
; ...yesterday explored the grounds of Brook Farm, where Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph...short-lived experiment in socialism. The Brook Farm commune, founded in 1841, also attracted...good reason, but communities like Brook Farm are reminders that at one time, and... Read more
Brook Farm being spruced up for 150th birthday
; ...them reenact the sights, sounds and ambiance of Brook Farm, an intellectual and social experiment in West...there from noon to 5 p.m. next Saturday to mark Brook Farm's 150th anniversary. Brook Farm, which for a few years flourished as a commune... Read more
SOUTH SHORE SECRETS WILLOW BROOK FARM PRESERVE
; The Willow Brook Farm and Fleetwood Farm preserves in Pembroke...of the wide, flat trail through Willow Brook Farm. Head northeast to the Harry and Mary...civilization. Emilie Raguso If you like Willow Brook Farm and Fleetwood Farm preserves: Striar... Read more
The last puritans.(Review)(Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia)(Book Review)
; BROOK Farm was the most visible, and in some ways most...This decade, as Sterling Delano explains in Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia, ([dagger]) was...reformers. The founder and leading light of Brook Farm was the Reverend George Ripley, a Unitarian... Read more
Deal will preserve Black Brook Farm State, local aid go for pastoral land
; ...MIDDLEBOROUGH - The sprawling Black Brook Farm in south Middleborough will...s $475,000 portion. The farm and abutting forest are located on Black Brook, which is a primary source...said Johnson of the Black Brook Farm deal. Under the terms of... Read more
BRINGING THE FARM TO YOU; PEKIN BROOK FARM ANIMAL EDUCATION CENTER TAKES FARM ANIMALS TO SCHOOLS AND FAIRS IN AN EFFORT TO OFFER HANDS-ON EDUCATION.(Neighbors Oswego)
; ...Anita Hyatt and her daughter, Dorothy Cole, own Pekin Brook Farm Animal Education Center in Richland. Hyatt, along with...Editorial Assistant Julie M. King. Name of business: Pekin Brook Farm Animal Education Center, Falls Road, Richland. Hours... Read more

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