Sue's Audio Books
  • Home
  • Arts
    • Painting
    • Poetry
    • Nature & Science
  • Memoirs
    • African Americans
    • Artists & Intellectuals
    • Explorers
    • Native Americans
    • Pioneers
    • Travelers
    • War & Military
    • Women
  • American History
    • American Revolution
    • American West
    • Civil War
    • Gold Rushes
    • Immigration
    • Slavery & Abolition
  • Miscellany
    • Odd Bits & Tangents
    • Nonfiction Collection
  • Me
    • About
    • Bookish (the Blog)
    • Sidney’s Brooklyn (1941-1960)
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
Amana in 1874

The Amana Community

Nonfiction Collection Amana, audiobooks, Charles Nordhoff, Iowa, librivox, nonfiction collection

Charles Nordhoff (1830–1901)

Above: A general view of Amana in 1874, from Nordhoff’s book.

Grace Before the Meal

Saying Grace

“The people of Amana appeared to me a remarkably quiet, industrious, and contented population; honest, of good repute among their neighbors, very kindly, and with religion so thoroughly and largely made a part of their lives that they may be called a religious people.”

Amana was a utopian community, located in Iowa, whose members came originally from Germany and Switzerland.

Listen to Nordhoff’s account:
Read the text on-line here:

The journalist Charles Nordhoff visited Amana in 1874 as part of his exploration of The Communistic Societies of the United States, from Personal Visit and Observation.

At that time, there were seven villages, each with from 135 to 450 persons. Besides farming, the communities managed a woolen mill, saw mill, tannery, and grist mill. Nordhoff talked “with a number of the rank and file, and noticed in them great satisfaction with their method of life . . . They had evidently thought pretty thoroughly upon the subject of communal living; and knew how to display to me what appeared to them its advantages in their society: the absolute equality of all men — ‘as God made us;’ the security for their families; the abundance of food; and the independence of a master.”

I read “The Amana Community” for volume 28 of the Nonfiction Collection.

 

In Mammouth Cave, 1894 FANNY Goes to War

Related Posts

Photo of spider web

Nonfiction Collection

The Circular Snare

A silo

Nonfiction Collection

The Cylindrical Silo

Index Page

Nonfiction Collection

Judging a Book by Its Index

Magnolia tree

Nonfiction Collection

Resolution Honoring the Founder of “Mother’s Day,” Miss Anna Jarvis

Foggy morning photo

Miscellany, Nonfiction Collection

Uphill in Fog

Recent Posts

  • Trees in Landscape Painting, Considerations of Balance
  • Peruvian Earthquakes of 1868
  • Abstracts in Ink from the Right Hand Desk Drawer, 2020-2021
  • Chicago Race Riots of 1919, Coroner’s Official Report
  • Chickens, Cats, & Self-Perception: On Drawing

Archives

  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • May 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • May 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016

Categories

Tags

Alfred East American History American West anti-semitism Arthur L. Guptill audiobooks August Jaccaci birds Brooklyn California Chicago Christopher Whall Civil War cochineal Constantine Panunzio constantinople Edward Carpenter Frontier Nursing Society Gold Rushes Illinois immigrants Immigration John Muir judaism letters librivox memoirs Mexico Mt. Rainier nature nonfiction collection Ohio painting pioneers poetry race riot Rex Vicat Cole Sidney Gross sketching Slavery & Abolition Spain Spanish Borderlands war and military women World War I
  • Home
  • Arts
    • Painting
    • Poetry
    • Nature & Science
  • Memoirs
    • African Americans
    • Artists & Intellectuals
    • Explorers
    • Native Americans
    • Pioneers
    • Travelers
    • War & Military
    • Women
  • American History
    • American Revolution
    • American West
    • Civil War
    • Gold Rushes
    • Immigration
    • Slavery & Abolition
  • Miscellany
    • Odd Bits & Tangents
    • Nonfiction Collection
  • Me
    • About
    • Bookish (the Blog)
    • Sidney’s Brooklyn (1941-1960)
    • Contact
    • Privacy Policy
© Sue's Audio Books 2021
Copyright: Sue Anderson. All rights reserved.
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy