What do you think of when you hear “free-love commune”? If you’re an American like me, I’m guessing you’re thinking 1960s or 70s alternative communities and hippies, not devout Christians in the 1800s. Today we’re talking about the Oneida Community—the only cult that turned itself into a silverware company.
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Hidden Brain episode “Playing Favorites” about what happens when we treat people close to us with more kindness than we show to others
Pierrepont Noyes’ My Father‘s House; An Oneida Boyhood
Ellen Wayland-Smith’s Oneida
Written and produced by Anna Roberts
Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez
Intro music by Elliot Middleton
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