{"id":57,"date":"2016-04-25T17:23:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016011\/?page_id=57"},"modified":"2016-04-27T12:52:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:52:04","slug":"broken-promises-community","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016011\/broken-promises-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Promises: Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016011\/files\/2016\/04\/10015_Robert-Owen-New-Harmony-Indiana-1838..jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-73\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016011\/files\/2016\/04\/10015_Robert-Owen-New-Harmony-Indiana-1838.-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"10015_Robert-Owen-New-Harmony-Indiana-1838.\" width=\"348\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cEverything imaginable was to be included for their comfort and enlightenment.\u201d (Pitzer, 96).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Owen&#8217;s Promises:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The people&#8217;s comfort within the society would include grand brick buildings complete with running water, electricity and spacious rooms.<\/li>\n<li>There would be factories and mills dotting the countryside, providing the citizens with every necessity of life.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Reality:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In Carol Komerten\u2019s book <em>Women in Utopia<\/em>, she states that instead of grand brick buildings, new recruits arrived at New Harmony finding only log cabins, mosquitos, and empty fields.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Food was scarce. Agriculture\u00a0was the community&#8217;s main source of food, but many of the members were not skilled farmers.<\/li>\n<li>Some family, like the Pears&#8217; family, had up to nine family members sharing the space of a tiny log cabin.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016011\/files\/2016\/04\/20101004T1133L.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-68 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016011\/files\/2016\/04\/20101004T1133L-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"20101004T1133L\" width=\"381\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">West Street Log Cabins, New Harmony, IN.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016011\/files\/2016\/04\/z-new-harmony-drawing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-74\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/fysutopiasspring2016011\/files\/2016\/04\/z-new-harmony-drawing-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"z-new harmony drawing\" width=\"378\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">&#8220;From a Sketch by a Young Lady of the Community&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kolmerten, Carol A. \u201cThe Collapse of the Communities: The Ideology of Gender and the \u2018Woman Problem\u2019\u201d. In <em>Women in utopia: the ideology of gender in the American Owenite community<\/em>, 68-110. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1990.<\/p>\n<p>Pitzer, Donald E. &#8220;The New Moral World of Robert Owen and New Harmony&#8221; in\u00a0<em>America&#8217;s Communal Utopias.<\/em>\u00a0Edited by Donald E. Pitzer. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997, pp. 88-134.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEverything imaginable was to be included for their comfort and enlightenment.\u201d (Pitzer, 96). Owen&#8217;s Promises: The people&#8217;s comfort within the society would include grand brick buildings complete with running water, electricity and spacious rooms. There would be factories and mills dotting the countryside, providing the citizens with every necessity of life. 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