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My Friends at Brook Farm

John Van der Zee Sears

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A boy at Brook Farm met Horace Greeley, went to school, and lived the great experiment firsthand. John Sears recalls his friends and days at the famous commune, from a bad beginning to a good ending. An affectionate insider's memoir of utopian farming life. Grow up inside America's most famous cooperative venture.

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14 chapters

  1. 1My Friends at Brook Farm
  2. 2TO MY FRIEND JOSEPH HORNOR COATES, Esq. OF PHILADELPHIA
  3. 3Contents
  4. 4ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5CHAPTER I. THE OLD COLONIE
  6. 6CHAPTER II. FRIEND GREELEY
  7. 7CHAPTER III. A STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND
  8. 8CHAPTER IV. A BAD BEGINNING
  9. 9CHAPTER V. A GOOD ENDING
  10. 10CHAPTER VI. ENTERTAINMENTS
  11. 11CHAPTER VII. THE SCHOOL
  12. 12CHAPTER VIII. ODDMENTS
  13. 13CHAPTER IX. FOURIER AND THE FARMERS
  14. 14CHAPTER X. UNTO THIS LAST
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