New Harmony


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New Harmony

A town of southwest Indiana on the Wabash River west-northwest of Evansville. Founded in 1814 by the Harmony Society led by George Rapp, it was the site (1825-1828) of a utopian community established by Robert Owen. The colony was known for its progressive educational, intellectual, and scientific ideas.
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New Harmony

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(Placename) a village in SW Indiana, on the Wabash River: scene of two experimental cooperative communities, the first founded in 1815 by George Rapp, a German religious leader, and the second by Robert Owen in 1825
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For the first six months of 2012 the New Harmony Soap Company donated 5% of sales to Feeding America, the nation's leading domestic hunger-relief charity, with a network of members to supply food to more than 37 million Americans each year, including 14 million children and 3 million seniors.
The allure of New Harmony as a retreat has a long history, as the southwest Indiana community hosted two separate communal societies in its unusual history Though the utopian groups are gone, the town remains an attractive out-of-the-way gathering spot, for artists, tourists and corporate groups.
Robert Owen: Owen of New Lanark and New Harmony begins with Owen's childhood and his first jobs (where Owen certainly benefited from quite a bit of luck as well as talent); it then devotes considerable attention to Owen's years in Manchester and New Lanark (where his abilities as a factory manager were demonstrated and he established his wealth and influence), his campaigns from New Lanark on behalf of social reforms in England and Ireland, and his brief career in the United States (particularly at New Harmony).
There is new harmony coming into Dani's life, although she will make some tough choices over the next two to three years, when her independent needs do battle with settling down urges.
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They were then asked to pray that the Christian heritage of the Irish people "will be the inspiration of new harmony and peace between the communities of Northern Ireland, between people of different political views".
She edited with him the New Harmony Gazette and the Free Enquirer, the latter launched by her in 1829 in New York City.
The festival is free to the public, open to all ages and is centered in the New Harmony Historic District at Main and Granary streets.
Josiah Warren was a remarkable man even before he became involved in Robert Owen's community in New Harmony, Indiana.
After a new harmony vector [x.sub.new] is generated, the harmony memory is updated by the survival of the fit competition between [x.sub.new] and the worst harmony vector [x.sub.w] in the HM.
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Thresherman's Park, 2 1/2 miles north on West New Harmony Road, 1/4 mile off Highway 61.

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