Big Blend Radio: Llano del Rio Co-operative Colony in Louisiana
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English - September 18, 2019 23:00 - 16 minutes - 14 MB - ★★★★ - 5 ratingsSociety & Culture parks and travel music and the arts history and culture family and relationships food and drink business and leadership health and self help nature and environment home and garden. Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Join Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter travel team and publishers of Big Blend Radio & TV Magazine and Parks & Travel Magazine, for Big Blend Radio’s Way Back When History Show showcasing the Museum of the New Llano Colony in Vernon Parish, Louisiana. This interview was recorded on-location as part of Big Blend’s Love Your Parks Tour, and features museum director Mary Ann Fussell, and Marci Cook from the Vernon Parish Tourism Commission.
New Llano, Louisiana was founded in 1917 by Job Harriman, a former U.S. Vice-Presidential candidate from California, and former Labor lawyer and Socialist politician. It lasted more than 20 years and is considered by many to have been America’s most successful socialist Utopia. The Museum of the New Llano Colony is committed to preserving the legacy of the Llano del Rio Co-operative Colony and aims to share the untold stories of the colonists and their efforts to prove that a co-operative lifestyle was superior to that of a capitalistic society of the early twentieth century.