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• W2007682612 abstract "NEW APPALACHIAN BOOKS OPINIONS AND REVIEWS Sears, Richard D. A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky: Integration and Social Equality at Berea, 1866-1904. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1996. 228 pages. $59.95. Richard Sears, a professor ofEnglish at Berea College, began researching the history of Berea College and the role ofits founders, especially John G. Fee, in the 1980s. A diligent researcher, Sears not only plowed through Berea College Archives' massive holdings, but also traveled extensively to manuscript depositories throughout the East. Those who have read Sears's earlier books are aware that he approaches his topics from viewpoints significantly different from those employed by traditional historians, and he makes no apologies for those differences. Determined to write about what interests him, Sears frequently asks questions which might not have otherwise been asked. His conclusions are frequently refreshing, always interesting, and sometimes surprising, but his books are not without problems, the worst of which is his fondness for rewriting previously published material in new publications . Reining in his penchant for long quotations which marred some of his earlier works, Sears presents here more than a narrative of Berea's founding fathers; it is an account of a Utopian movement. With feeling and in detail, Sears recounts John G. Fee's zeal and determination , first at Camp Nelson, where he reached his decision to locate his college at Berea, and then at Berea, where Fee put into place a Utopian experiment unlike any other in the nation. Sears's strengths lie in the level of detail regarding the hundreds of people associated with Berea's early years, his analysis of Berea's Oberlin College connection, and the thorough coverage of the role of blacks in the college and in the community . Sears's A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky recounts a story of wonderful dedication and devotion on the part of many people, but it also exposes a darker, unflattering side of some of Berea's participants. United only in their basic Christian beliefs, Berea's founders were beset by controversies regarding policy and conflict of personalities. The college's success actually increased these tensions. Subtle personal differences within Berea's community involving race, social equality, and Christian doctrine had previously been overshadowed by the larger 64 struggles over slavery and abolition. As it turned out, some of Fee's northern friends, previously so outspoken on behalf of blacks and so important in the Utopian experiment during the early years, did not truly accept Fee's ideas. Objections to social equality for blacks and questions concerning doctrinal differences resulted in a steady exodus northward; new workers seemed even less convinced of Fee's goals. Nevertheless, Fee's hopes for a fully integrated college and community seemed within his grasp until 1890, when changes in leadership quickly undermined his Utopian dream. In the end, Sears reminds us, the entire experiment lasted a mere twenty-five years. After 1892 Fee, relegated to the sidelines , watched his experiment wane. Thoughtful and provocative, A Utopian Experiment in Kentucky is Sears's best book, and required reading for those interested in the early days of the Berea experiment. —Marion B. Lucas Arnow, Harriette Simpson. Flowering of the Cumberland. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1996. Bison Books Edition, a reprint of a 1963 book. Paperback $17.95. Tobin, Juanita Brown. Ransom Street Quartet: Poems and Stories. Boone, North Carolina: Parkway Publishers, 1995. $14.95. York, John. Johnny's Cosmology. 38 pages. $8.95. May be ordered from The Hummingbird Press, P.O. Box 7301, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 27109-7301. The University of Nebraska Press has given us a gift by republishing Harriette Simpson Arnow's Flowering ofthe Cumberland. Though much has changed in the fields ofhistory writing and literary non-fiction in the intervening decades, rereading Arnow reminds us that good prose is always in style and that good stories never die. And her story is a good one. In this volume, Arnow's purpose was to continue telling the saga of the pioneers who settled the Cumberland Valley during the period of 1780 to 1803 (with a liberal spillover before and after). Her 1960 volume, Seedtime on the Cumberland, had already related the stories of the individual..." @default.
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