"A piano in the house, when I came home from school and was able to play all these different notes with all theses different sounds, I really found that fascinating."

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There are two instances I studied in which a community moved, amazingly, into an preexisting village built by other, earlier communalists. The Rappites were a German millenarian sect I mostly leave out of the story, even though they are fascinating, because they're focused on salvation and retreating from the world, as opposed to transforming it, like the other groups I write about.

— Christine Jennings