They gaped at the people who lived in this place-especially the women, with their queer cropped hair and shamelessly short skirts. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. It was heaven on earth-and, some whispered, the devil’s garden. This true crime odyssey explores a forgotten, astonishing chapter of American history, leading the reader from a free-love community in upstate New York to the shocking assassination of President James Garfield. This event is free and open to the public. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A and book signing. Copperfield’s Books welcomes Susan Wels and Celeste Perry to Petaluma in celebration of Susan's new book - An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a Nineteenth-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder.
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