Utopia For Hire: New Harmony, Indiana

ANNETTE ON THE ROAD A Midwestern Town That Hosts Dreams of Perfect Worlds, and Settles for What it Can Get

Philadelphia’s intellectual elite was outraged. Two rich Brits had filched the city's top scientists, loaded them on a barge they called “A Boatload of Knowledge”, and spirited them off to a heavily forested and remote corner of the West, near where Indiana, Illinois, and Kentucky meet.

There, the two men would install the scientists in a ready-made to…