Spirit Fruit

by H. Roger Grant

Book Overview

The dream of an ideal social order has inspired the formation of experimental communities in America since colonial times. One of the most successful of these was the Spirit Fruit Society, founded in the late 1890s by Jacob Beilhart. In 1901, after purchasing a small farm outside Lisbon, Ohio, the Spirit Fruit society settled into a peaceful and industrious, if morally unorthodox, way of life that won the bemused affection of their neighbors. Unfortunately,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875801374
• ISBN13: 9780875801377
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher