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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Heaven on Earth: the Brook Farm Community

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2013

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In the 1840s, Boston's West Roxbury suburb -- which was completely rural at the time -- was home to an experiment in transcendentalist utopian living: the Brook Farm community. The idea was to create an environment of balance and equality.

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0:00.0

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0:30.7

Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseofWorks.com.

0:42.7

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fron, and I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

0:47.2

And today we're going to talk about an experiment in utopian living.

0:53.2

I feel like this has been tried many times.

0:55.7

In many ways, it has. And even while this one was going on,

0:58.7

there were many, many others going on.

1:01.7

So to give you some clues to what we're talking about,

1:03.7

from 1841 to 1846, Boston's West Roxbury suburb,

1:08.7

which at the time was completely rural, and it is not so much now,

1:12.7

was home to this experiment in a transcendentalist utopian living

1:16.7

called the Brook Farm community.

1:18.7

And I have read at the time that there were approximately

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