{"id":71214,"date":"2016-07-25T10:48:58","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T14:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71214"},"modified":"2016-07-24T20:51:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-25T00:51:59","slug":"wayland-smith-will-discuss-her-new-book-on-the-oneida-community-at-the-mansion-house-july-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=71214","title":{"rendered":"Wayland-Smith will discuss her new book\u00a0on the Oneida Community at the Mansion House July 26"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookTalkEllenWayland-SmithHeadShot\"<\/a><\/strong>Critically praised for her new insider\u2019s history of the Oneida Community\u2019s evolution into Oneida Ltd., Ellen Wayland-Smith will talk about her new book, research and intimate connections to the Community in a program at the Oneida Community Mansion House co-sponsored by Oneida Public Library on Tuesday, July 26<\/span>, at 7 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wayland-Smith\u2019s book, \u201cOneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-set Table,\u201d was published by Picador last May. It tells the story of the founding of the Oneida Community by the Perfectionist John Humphrey Noyes, his radical religious and socialist beliefs as well as the community\u2019s scandalous practice of \u201ccomplex marriage.\u201d Wayland-Smith, herself a direct descendent of Noyes, spares no punches in relating the controversies surrounding Noyes and the Community.<\/p>\n

Wayland-Smith\u2019s history then focuses on the Community\u2019s transformation after its break-up in 1880 into Oneida Ltd, which in the 20th century successfully manufactured and marketed silverware while espousing propriety and paternalistic capitalism.<\/p>\n

Copies of \u201cOneida: From Free Love Utopia to the Well-set Table\u201d will be available at the Mansion House program for purchase and signing by the author.<\/p>\n

Wayland-Smith, who received a doctorate in comparative literature from Princeton University, is a professor of writing at the University of Southern California. She is currently working on a new book called \u201cWhat Women Want: The Life and Times of Jean Wade Rindlaub, a Cold War Adwoman.\u201d According to the author, the book is \u201ca cultural history of post-war America through the lens of women\u2019s advertising.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Oneida Community Mansion House, located at 170 Kenwood Ave. in Oneida, was built in stages from 1861 on by the Oneida Community (1848-1880). The 93,000-square foot complex housed the \u201cBible Communist\u201d society, which at its height had more than 300 members. Today the Mansion House, run by a not-for-profit organization, is on the National Historic Register and functions as a museum, a bed and breakfast and a private-apartment complex.<\/p>\n

Free parking for the book talk is available at the rear of the former Oneida Ltd. Administration Building at 163 Kenwood Ave., a 5-10 minute walk from the Mansion House.<\/p>\n

For more information, call the Oneida Library at 315-363-3050<\/a> or the Mansion House at 315-363-0745<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Critically praised for her new insider\u2019s history of the Oneida Community\u2019s evolution into Oneida Ltd., Ellen Wayland-Smith will talk about her new book, research and intimate connections to the Community in a program at the Oneida Community Mansion House co-sponsored by Oneida Public Library on Tuesday, July 26, at 7 p.m. Wayland-Smith\u2019s book, \u201cOneida: From […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[65,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-libraries","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-iwC","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/BookTalkEllenWayland-SmithHeadShot.jpg?fit=4608%2C3072&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}