[ravenwolf]

Quite symbolic.

Otherwise my understanding is they were rather strict Lutherans

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Yeah, give me that old time religion as the song goes.

I had heard about Blythe but had not heard about the colony from Switzerland, thanks for the info.

[muawiyah]

There are some articles about the Swiss polygamists on the net these days. For years and years all we could ever find were the grave sites ~ a guy and his wives ~ and there are a good number of them.

In the early part of the 19th century Indiana was popular with the communist societies, and some of them were into plural marriage ~ or worse ~ no marriage at all, and no sex!