COLLECTED MATERIALS CONCERNING OTHER MODERN SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITIES,, 1917-1932
Dates
- 1917-1932
Scope and Contents
Summary: Publications and photocopied materials about other Modern Schools and anarchist communities.
Includes an issue of Experimental Schools (1917), the bulletin of the Bureau of Educational Experiments, with articles about Stony Ford School in Stony Ford, New York, and the Home School in Sparkill, New York; two issues of Open Pages (1932), a magazine of stories, poems, and linoleum cuts by children from the Modern School in the Mohegan Colony in Peekskill, New York; and a broadside from the Manumit School in Pawling, New York (1928).
Also includes photocopies of a hearing about the incorporation of the April Farms Association, 1925. April Farms was a utopian community founded in Massachusetts in 1924, and moved to Quakertown, Pennsylvania, the following year. A number of anarchists lived there including several people from Stelton. The community, which was founded by millionaire Charles Garland, only lasted until 1930.
Language of Materials
English, Yiddish, and Spanish
Conditions Governing Access
Brittle items from the Modern School records, school publications, and the Alexis Ferm and Elizabeth Byrne Ferm papers have been photocopied onto acid-free paper. The originals are stored separately, and are not meant to be used by researchers.
Part of the New Brunswick Special Collections Repository