Dissolution and legacy Fruitlands (transcendental center)

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historical marker @ former site of fruitlands


the biggest challenge @ fruitlands farming. community had arrived @ farm month behind planting schedule , 11 acres (4.5 ha) of land arable. decision not use animal labor on farm proved undoing of commune, combined fact many of men of commune spent days teaching or philosophizing instead of working in field. using own hands, fruitlands residents incapable of growing sufficient amount of food them through winter.


fruitlands hampered structure. alcott , lane wielded limitless authority , dictated strict , repressive models living. prone indulge in occasional hilarity , wrote alcott s wife abby may, seem frowned down still quiet , peace-less order... [and] suffocated in atmosphere of restriction , form . fruitlands experiment ended 7 months after began. according bronson alcott, inhabitants left fruitlands in january 1844; daughter, louisa may, wrote left in december 1843, considered more accurate date. alcott dismayed failure of fruitlands and, moving family live nearby farmer, refused eat several days. later, ralph waldo emerson helped purchase home family in concord.


fruitlands had brief opportunity impact america , transcendentalist movement. after had ended, land bought 1 of former participants, joseph palmer, 20 years used site refuge former reformers. property purchased in 1910 clara endicott sears, opened farmhouse public in 1914 museum. today, fruitlands museum includes museum on shaker life, art gallery of nineteenth-century paintings, , museum of native american art , crafts.








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