Show community scheme fix fizzle ale the brook farm was a community organized in 1841 near roxbury uasa mass by george eorge illsley and his wife an association was formed with a few stockholders and a farm ol of acres purchased the object was to promote the benefits of society according to the principle of operation cooperation co the life led was very simple and every on one e had bad a share of the work receiving a certain rate of pay the products of the farm were sold A school was maintained for the children A number of prominent people were in the scheme uniting among them nathaniel hawthorne ch charles arles A dana john S dwight george P Bi Bl adford ralph waldo valdo emerson amos B alcott theodore park pr george W curtis and margaret fliller after a time however busm waned and as a result of financial brianc c I 1 al loss hie scheme was dissolved in 1847 |