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I WISH TO EXPRESS my gratitude to family and friends who encouraged me for many years to write about my life. While some of it would provide interesting or entertaining memories as social history over many decades, the most meaningful part of my life, after motherhood, can be found within the small town of my husband’s Owen ancestors, New Harmony, Indiana. My father, Robert Lee Blaffer, and after him my brother, John, never ceased to support my belief in New Harmony.

Over the years, I have been asked to give interviews, write introductions, speak in various settings, and provide information for historians, biographers, and scholars. I always envisioned, however, writing about my New Harmony adventures and revealing the full story myself.

I appreciate the efforts of those who were directly involved in transforming the idea of a book into reality.

Two women helped in the beginning. Barbara Conrey worked with me in New Harmony on individual chapters. Roger Rasbach introduced Donna Mosher, a busy editor with Segue Communications, to me at lunch, knowing of my need for assistance. Donna graciously transformed my handwritten pages into a coherent form on the computer.

I asked my good Houston friend Ted Estess, Founding Dean of the Honors College at the University of Houston, to read the rough draft. His wife, Sybil Pittman Estess, my longtime friend and a wonderful poet, read along with him. Ted devoted considerable time in the fall of 2008 to reviewing the draft and knew it would benefit from extensive research before revising. Ted gave me the best advice possible when he recommended Nancy, who had worked with him on his recent book Be Well: Reflections on Graduating from College.

My gratitude and appreciation for Nancy Mangum McCaslin, who became my personal editor, is boundless. Nancy understood immediately that a mother measures time and events in relation to her children rather than by a calendar, and her research assistance was always sensitive and more accurate than a bloodhound following a scent. Her editing was intuitive and gentle. Her tireless efforts on my behalf are invaluable, as is our close friendship. She also suggested two knowledgeable readers who would bring their expertise to my memoir.

Connie Weinzapfel, Director of Historic New Harmony, read my manuscript for the accuracy of historical references as well as contemporary details related to New Harmony. A dear friend and collaborator on several other projects, Connie worked most recently with me on the foreword for New Harmony Then and Now, with text by Donald E. Pitzer and photographs by Darryl D. Jones, available through Indiana University Press, Quarry Books. Other photographs by Darryl are included in the following pages.

Ben Nicholson, Associate Professor of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Designed Objects at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, read my manuscript in his capacity as co-editor of the forthcoming Forms of Spirituality: Modern Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony. Laura Foster Nicholson, naturally, read along with him. They are more recent transplants to New Harmony with whom I enjoy a rich friendship; each brought unique talents that enrich our community. Laura is one of the top weavers in the country, with a studio full of glorious works in progress on her looms. Ben can often be found patiently creating labyrinths with whatever nature has to offer him, such as multicolored autumnal leaves. While reading an early draft of Forms of Spirituality, I began to consider it as a companion book to mine that would balance two perspectives, the scholarly with the personal.

I also want to thank William R. Crout, Founder and Curator, the Paul Tillich Lectures, the Memorial Church, Harvard University. Bill is a former student, editorial assistant, and friend of Paul Tillich. Always a southern gentleman at heart and my East Coast friend for over a decade, Bill graciously provided helpful information about Tillich. He and Nancy were indefatigable allies of mine concerning chronological details about Paul Tillich for my memoir.

I was pleased to renew communication with Ralph G. Schwarz, and I thank him for aiding my memories about his time in New Harmony.

The maps of New Harmony, which will orient readers to our town and its surrounding area, were graciously designed by my friend Kenneth A. “Kent” Schuette, Clinical Professor, Landscape Architecture, at Purdue University, and illustrated by Roy Boswell, with technical assistance provided by Nicholas Mitchel and Tony Gillund.

I also thank the many individuals and archivists who responded so willingly to Nancy’s requests and provided valuable assistance and information, including Preston and Pauline Bolton; Claske Franck, Pacem in Terris; Ted Lechner; Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, Associate Professor, Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston and co-editor of Forms of Spirituality; Cammie McAtee; Laura McGuire; Lorraine A. Stuart, Archives Director, and David Aylsworth, Collections Registrar, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Betty L. Fischer, Archivist, University of St. Thomas; Lee Pecht, Head of Special Collections, and Rebecca Russell, Archivist/Special Collections Librarian, Woodson Research Center, Rice University; Stephen Fox, Architectural Historian, Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas; Vicki List McIntosh, Owen Offices; Judy Alsop, Red Geranium Enterprises Archives; Chris Laughbaum of the Robert Lee Blaffer Foundation, Robert Lee Blaffer Trust Archive and Paul Tillich Archive; Jodi Moore, Property Manager, David Dale Owen Laboratory, Rapp-Maclure-Owen House, and Rawlings House; Linda Warrum, Interpreter, Historic New Harmony; Martha J. Breeze, Posey County Recorder, and Mary J. Rhoades, Chief Deputy; Philip Werry, Werry Funeral Homes, Inc.; Martha Mathews; Sherry Graves, Margaret Scherzinger, and M. Ryan Rokicki, Director, Working Men’s Institute; Amanda Bryden, Historic Sites Collections Manager, Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites; Letitia “Tish” Mumford; Bishop and Liz Mumford; Priscilla Jackson, Archivist, and Stephen Reynolds, Director of Information Technology, the Ethel Walker School; Fiona de Young, School Archivist and Assistant Librarian, Moran Upper School Library, the Kinkaid School; Linda Caruso-Haviland, Associate Professor, Founder and Director of the Dance Program, Bryn Mawr College; Serene Jones, President, as well as Leah Rousmaniere, Associate Director of Development for Stewardship and Research, Union Theological Seminary; Sr. Élise and the Community of the Holy Spirit; Mrs. Shanks, Lexington Public Library Reference and Information Center; Diane Ney, Manager of Archives and Records, and Beverly Brown of Washington National Cathedral; Fr. Rivers Patout, Rev. James and Carol Scott, and Patricia Poulos, Houston International Seafarers’ Center; Barbara Morris; Marisa Bourgoin, Richard Manoogian Chief of Reference Services, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution; Geraldine Aramanda, Archivist, and Mary Kadish, Collections Registrar, the Menil Collection; Duane Hampton; Ritsert Rinsma; Tom Straw; Jane Martin, Michelle Harris, Jenny Wright, and Karen Turner, Support Services Administrator, the Iona Community; Michelle Andersson, Photo Librarian, Historic Scotland; James Clifton, Director, Leslie Scattone, Assistant Curator, and Sarah Pierce, Administrative Assistant, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation; Kathy Sales and Angie Hein, New Harmony Inn; Janet Lorence; Meredith “Merri” Leffel; Drs. Niels C. Nielson Jr. and Adrian Neil “Sandy” Havens, Professors Emeriti, Rice University; Dr. Barbara Truesdell, Assistant Director, Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory; Elizabeth A. Novara, Curator, and Amanda Moore, Historic Preservation Graduate Assistant, Historical Manuscripts Special Collections, Frederick L. Rath Jr. Papers and the Charles Hosmer Papers, Hornbake Library, University of Maryland; Jennifer Greene, Reference and Archives Librarian, David L. Rice Library, University of Southern Indiana; Vickie Cato, Clerk, Vanderburg County Clerk’s Office, Evansville, Indiana; Justin Davis, Librarian, Indiana State Library; Clair Wezet, Poseyville Carnegie Public Library; Claudia Schmuckli, Director and Chief Curator, Blaffer Art Museum, University of Houston; Tina Blue-field; Darryl D. Jones, Photographer; Cheryl Wilburn, Episcopal Diocese of Washington; and Sarah Buffington, Curator, Old Economy Village. For assistance with French translations after June 2010: Andrea Heggen; Cammie McAtee, PhD; Monique Singley, Executive Assistant to James J. Coleman Jr.; and Leslie J. Roberts, PhD, Professor Emeritus of French, University of Southern Indiana. For assistance with permissions and rights requests: Mutie Tillich Farris, PhD, Estate of Paul Tillich and Estate of Hannah Tillich; Sr. Catherine Grace, CHS, Community of the Holy Spirit; Lukas Franck, Pacem in Terris; Danae Mattes and Jill Therrien, Studio Archivist, Stephen De Staebler Estate; Hanno D. Mott of the Lipchitz family, including Lolya R. Lipchitz and Frank L. Mott; Brittany Piccuirro, Press Archivist, Marlborough Gallery; Margaret Rosati Norton, Estate of James Rosati; Robert Hernandez, Interim Manager of Rights and Reproductions, the Menil Collection; Michael Shulman, Director, Publishing, Broadcast and Film, Magnum Photos; Kevin Swank, Visuals Editor, Evansville Courier & Press; Isabelle Le Druillennec, Responsable Unité Collections, Assistant Curator, and Caroline Sormay, Assistante Éditions/Communication, Musée Picasso, Antibes; Hannah Rhadigan, Permissions Assistant, ARS—Artists Rights Society; and Maryam Mafi. In memoriam: Robert “Bob” Schneider and Jeanne Blair.

Gratitude goes to the professionals who made the publication possible. At Indiana University Press: Linda Oblack, Sponsoring Editor; Sarah Jacobi, Assistant Sponsoring Editor; Pam Rude, Senior Artist and Book Designer, and the Indiana University Press team. In addition, IUP’s anonymous peer review recommendations proved insightful and helpful, although some were beyond the scope of a literary work: Reader #1 requested the addition of an index, and Reader #2 requested the inclusion of a brief explanation about the memoir-writing process and source material, which was also accomplished through some additional endnotes. At Westchester Publishing Services: Debbie Masi, Production Supervisor, Editorial Services. For copyediting: Sue Warga. For the index: Meridith Murray, MLM Indexing Service. And for proofreading page proofs and the index: Donna Mosher, Segue Communications, returned to the project a decade later.