Fiction | By Tom Noyes
The Instruction and Edification of Children at Oneida, John Humphrey Noyes’s Utopian Commune, in 1850
Just after breakfast, we received word that Mr. Noyes and Mrs. Cragin had arrived and that they wished to meet with all the girls, so the other nurses and I gathered up the lot of them, ran combs through their hair, and arranged them in a semicircle on the damp lawn near where Mr. Noyes …