Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table—An American Story

Oneida was a religious community in rural New York whose people that held radical notions of equality, sex, and religion. Ellen Wayland-Smith *99, a descendant of one of the community’s original families, tells the story of how the sect transformed into one of the nation’s leading manufacturers of silverware in Oneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-Set Table—An American Story.