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Here is a look inside one of the rooms at Fruitlands. The goal of the agrarian commune Fruitlands was to create a pacifistic utopia wherein residents could live, work, think, and exist with nature. Members of Fruitlands were strict vegans who wore…

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Charles Lane was an English-American Transcendentalist. Lane admired Alcott's philosophy of teaching and when Alcott traveled to England to drum up support for what would become the Fruitlands experiment, Lane was on board. Alcott was too broke to…

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This is the old house at Fruitlands which was established by Bronson Alcott in June 1843 in Harvard, Massachusetts. Charles Lane purchased 90 acres of land for $1800.

Here you can see where members of the Alcott and Lane families lived. Residents…

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Bronson Alcott spent most of his life putting philosophical theories and progressive education principles into the numerous school experiments that he created, namely the briefly successful Temple School in Boston. The next step in the evolution was…
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