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New Harmony - A Tale of Two Utopias 2005

 
We will explore the two early 19th Century Utopian communities of New Harmony, Indiana. The program includes music by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Josef Haydn, and Randall Thompson. Actors Paul Lane and David McIntosh will speak the words of New Harmony's Utopian leaders George Rapp and Robert Owen.

Web links of interest:

Historic New Harmony
A great site with links to pages about New Harmony past and present -- scientists, writers, artists and scholars who lived in New Harmony; the Harmonist Society in Indiana and Pennsylvania; maps; and a bibliography.

New Harmony Web Page
Information on visiting New Harmony; photo gallery, tourism information, etc.

Labyrinth Resource Centre
The Labyrinth Resource Centre contains lots of information about labyrinths, including a large photo library and archive

Labyrinth Enterprises
Labyrinth Enterprises, the "largest full-service labyrinth resource in the world". Their links section contains links to hundreds of Web sites about labyrinths.

Here's a list of Utopia sites on the Internet

Sources for New Harmony: A Tale of Two Utopias

General
Music in New Harmony, Indiana, 1825-1865 -- Claude K. Sluder
The Communistic Societies of the United States from Personal Observations -- Charles Nordhoff
American Socialisms -- John Humphrey Noyes
The Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias -- Marguerite Young
American Utopias (1683-1900) -- Miguel J. Solis
The Labyrinth of New Harmony -- Ross Lockridge
Cultures of Peace: The Hidden Side of History -- Elise Boulding

George Rapp and the Harmony Society
New Harmony's First Utopians -- Donald E. Pitzer and Josephine M. Elliott
George Rapp's Harmony Society -- Karl J. R. Arndt

Robert Owen and New Harmony
An Address Delivered to the Inhabitants of New Lanark at the Opening of the Institution for the Formation of Character -- Robert Owen
Report to the County of Lanark, a New View of Society -- Robert Owen
Robert Owen: A Biography -- Frank Podmore
New Harmony, Indiana: Robert Owen's Seedbed for Utopia -- Donald F. Carmonyand Josephine M. Elliott
Quest for the New Moral World -- John F.C. Harrison
Wonder Workers of the Wabash -- Janet R. Walker
Robert Owen and his Relevance to our Times, John Butt -- Harold Silver
New Harmony, Indiana: Equality and Education on the Wabash -- Ann McIntosh