Communalism in Ohio: Two Day Tour
Visit historic communal sites in Northern Ohio. The two-day tour begins with the MHA devotional held in the Kirtland Temple. Stops include the Shaker Historical Society, Historic Zoar, Behalt: Mennoite Museum, the Morely Farm and Historic Kirtland.
7:00 AM - 11:00 PMSun
Early Mormons have often been considered a communal society, especially during their years in Kirtland. Join communal scholars Erik Freeman (History Professor, Snow College) and Seth Bryant (Instructor, Kirtland Temple Historic Site) on a two-day tour of communal societies throughout Northern Ohio. We will visit the museum at the North Union Shaker community, tour the historic site of the Zoar Society of Separatists, and stay overnight in Amish country. On the way back to Historic Kirtland, we will stop at Behalt: Mennonite Museum and the Morley Farm where some of the first Latter-day Saints lived communally in the 1830s. On the bus and at the site visits, Freeman & Bryant will engage in conversations about Mormonism's overlap with these and other radical social movements of the region.