Harmony

evil_little_dog and I went to New Harmony which has a link back to where I'm from in PA, Old Economy (where I set my novella of 1930s demon hunters, The Darkest Midnight in December). It was a utopia set up by George Rapp, head of the Harmonites, who believed in equality (gender, class), they were celibates who believed Jesus was returning post haste in the early 1800s, In 10 years they had built 180 building here on the Wabash River and they were pretty ingenuis like having a moveable building that could be pulled over citrus trees to keep them alive in the winter and because they believed in equality and no one was more important than any other person that when they died they were buried in the orchards, no head stones, basically as fertilizer.

The town was then bought by Owen and MacClure, a couple of Scots who wanted to start their own utopia, only scientific instead of religious. There were two interesting mazes, one of granite based on the one from the Charteres cathedral and another hedge. We also down some of the scientists, Owen, Ribeyre in the cemetery on the ihll.

The town today does have a tour but not at the moment because of the weather. The town is cute and full of shops (like the one where I bought some nice soap or the antique shop where I got the haunted harmony book), there'a an open air church that looks like a mushroom to me. What I really wanted to see but couldn't was the amazing gothic house that was a lab for one of Owen's relatives. The firehouse antique store (which smells of smoke) had the most amazing card catalog (which sadly appeared not for sale) that had pressed iron pulls that were lovely.

Had fun BBQ for lunch and hawg-n-sauce and then went home to watch What We Do in the Shadows which was both weird and funny and just too strange for words.