In Quest of Heaven: The Story of the Sunrise Cooperative Farm Community

History

Cohen, Joseph J.

Americas

Porcupine Pr

Cultural Writing. History. In 1933 a group of workers from New York, Detroit, and Chicago purchased the fourteen square mile Prarie Farm in Michigan's Saginaw Valley. This is the story of the libertarian collectivist colony known as the Sunrise Co-operative Farm Community. Written by its founder, Joseph J. Cohen, and first published by the Sunrise History Publishing Committee in 1957, IN QUEST OF HEAVEN describes the growth and development of the colony and offers insight into why it ultimately failed.

In Quest of Heaven: The Story of the Sunrise Co-operative Farm Community

Factory School

<p>Cultural Writing. Education. Out of print since the day it was printed, this Southpaw Culture edition of THE MODERN SCHOOL AT STELTON reproduces the original text, including essays by Joseph Cohen, Alexis Ferm, Harry Kelly and Leonard Abbott. These writings, plus twenty photographs by Oscar Steckbardt, provide a compelling portrait of the special community and its flagship school. "The Modern School, of Stelton, N.J., founded in 1910, is the pioneer libertarian school of America. We deem the true school a place where individuals of diverse attainments learn from and with one another. It is not so much concerned with 'subjects' and 'courses' as with fruitful living. Its pupils learn through constructive occupation, not by cramming, but by doing. Their knowledge and skill are no result of formal discipline, but of inspiring workmanship, and come best with fellowship in achievement. Pedagogic mechanisms are mere aids to spanning the mass of man's experiences and making them graspable by the grow</p>

The Modern School of Stelton: A Sketch

Ferm, Alexis C.

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