Article: COMMUNE-ISH PLOT THICKENS ON BROOK FARM : THE FACTS.(L.A. LIFE) (theater review)

Article: After the touch-up, whither utopia? For Brook Farm, ...
The Boston Globe;  December 24, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... WEST 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 ...

Article: Brook Farm
Dictionary of American History;      515 words ...BROOK FARM BROOK FARM. Founded in 1841 on 183 acres of land purchased from Charles Ellis in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, the Brook Farm Institute of Agriculture and Education was a utopian community organized ...

Article: Transcendental Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook ...
The Modern Language Review;  April 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Utopias: Individual and Community at Brook Farm, Fruitlands, and 'Walden'. By RICHARD ... theory but briefly in practice. The Brook Farm cooperative community, which involved ... are George Ripley, the guiding hand of Brook Farm; Bronson Alcott, the paterfamilias ...

Article: WEST ROXBURY MDC STILL EYEING BROOK FARM DUKAKIS ...
The Boston Globe;  February 24, 1987 ;     606 words ...Brook Farm in West Roxbury, once home to a 19th ... include $3 million for the purchase of Brook Farm in a capital outlay budget for open ... year. A $2.1 million bond issue for Brook Farm's purchase was passed in 1974 but expired ...

Article: NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN ROMANCE: GENRE AND THE ...
Studies in Short Fiction;  January 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ...NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN ROMANCE: GENRE AND THE CONSTRUCTION ... Budick grounds her reading of the American romance in the context of the sociopolitical ... of the nineteenth century: American romance fiction, I suggest, was an ...

Article: Hundreds gather at Brook Farm to celebrate ideas ...
The Boston Globe;  June 16, 1991 ;     670 words ... ... people yesterday explored the grounds of Brook Farm, where Nathaniel Hawthorne and Ralph ... lived experiment in socialism. The Brook Farm commune, founded in 1841, also attracted ... for good reason, but communities like Brook Farm are reminders that at one time, and ...

Article: Running Brook Farm a gateway to winter wonderland ...
News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  February 9, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... the Chain O'Lakes countryside Running Brook Farm, Duck Lake Crossing, and Vern's Landing ... The single-family homes at Running Brook Farm offer all the amenities (and more ... and also townhomes available at Running Brook Farm. For cross-country skiers, there ...