LIK6 Utopian Pride Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 12/3/2006
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Small landscaped community corner, parking nearby.
Container contains log only- you may want to bring your own pencil.

Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews were brilliant and idealistic men, social reformers whose dream was to create a utopia where everyone would live in harmony, where profit would be a dirty word and absolute personal freedom - including ``free love'' - would be the ultimate goal.

It was in 1851 that Warren and Andrews founded Modern Times, a social experiment that occupied, for a volatile 13 years, land that is part of Islip Town's pine barrens. Short-lived though it was, Modern Times left its mark as a place whose time had not yet come: Its maverick residents, who never numbered more than 150, were free to cohabit with or without marriage. To be sure, this was what gave the place its reputation as a ``Sodom of the pine barrens,'' but it was only part of what Modern Times was about. The village operated harmoniously for several years without police, courts or crime. All residents were allowed total personal freedom as long as their actions hurt no one else. Food, clothing, land and housing - all the necessities - were sold at cost.
Modern Times was one of the last of about 50 experimental American communities in the mid-1800s. In a 1945 magazine article, Helen Beal Woodward wrote, ``Those towns stood for everything eccentric - for abolition, short skirts, whole-wheat bread, hypnotism, phonetic spelling, phrenology, free love and the common ownership of property.'' The others were in decline when Modern Times started, and on Sept. 7, 1864, faced with national scandal, the Civil War and internal dissension over the ban on profit-making, villagers ended the experiment.

Where to Find More: ``Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, N.Y., by Roger Wunderlich, 1992;
``A Century of Brentwood,'' by Verne Dyson, 1950, at Brentwood Public Library.
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