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The list Ferrer Center and Colony includes Will Durant, Ariel Durant, Harry Kelly (anarchist), Abe Bluestein and The Communal Experience. The list consists of 13 members.
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    Will Durant
    American historian, philosopher and writer (1885–1981)
    Will Durant
    Overview: William James Durant (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was an American writer, historian, and philosopher. He became best known for his work The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collab ...
    Date of birth: 5 November 1885
    Date of death: 7 November 1981
    Age: 96 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Male
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    St. Peter's Preparatory School alumni 38T
    20th-century American male writers 6,911T
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    Ariel Durant
    Russian-Jewish American writer
    Ariel Durant
    Overview: Ariel Durant (May 10, 1898 – October 25, 1981) was a Russian-born American researcher and writer. She was the coauthor of The Story of Civilization with her husband, Will Durant. They were awarded the ...
    Date of birth: 10 May 1898
    Date of death: 25 October 1981
    Age: 83 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
    Gender: Female
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    People from Proskurovsky Uyezd 5T
    20th-century memoirists 804T
    Jewish Ukrainian social scientists 11T
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    Harry Kelly (anarchist)
    American anarchist and Modern School activist
    Harry Kelly (anarchist)
    Overview: Harry May Kelly (1871–1953) was an American anarchist and lifelong activist in the Modern School movement.
    Date of birth: 1871
    Date of death: 1953
    Age: 81 (age at death)
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    People from St. Charles, Missouri 56T
    People from St. Charles County, Missouri 69T
    People from Berkeley Heights, New Jersey 30T
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    Carl Zigrosser
    American art dealer and art historian
    Overview: Carl Zigrosser (1891–1975) was an art dealer best known for founding and running the New York Weyhe Gallery in the 1920s and 1930s, and as Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Philadelphia Museum of Art ...
    Date of birth: 1891
    Date of death: 1975
    Age: 83 (age at death)
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    Leonard Abbott
    American politician (1878–1953)
    Leonard Abbott
    Overview: Leonard Abbott (1878–1953) was an anarchist and socialist best known for co-founding the Stelton Colony and related Ferrer Association in the 1910s.
    Date of birth: 20 May 1878
    Date of death: 1953
    Age: 74 (age at death)
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Writer
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    Ferrer Center and Colony
    American anarchist social center and colony
    Overview: The Ferrer Center and Stelton Colony were an anarchist social center and colony, respectively, organized to honor the memory of anarchist pedagogue Francisco Ferrer and to build a school based on his model ...
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    Nellie Dick
    Anarchist educator (1893–1995)
    Overview: Nellie Dick (born Naomi Ploschansky; 15 May 1893 – 31 October 1995) was an anarchist educator and for 40 years was at the forefront of the Modern Schools movement. Alongside her husband, Jim Dick, she ...
    Date of birth: 15 May 1893
    Date of death: 31 October 1995
    Age: 102 (age at death)
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    Elizabeth and Alexis Ferm
    20th century libertarian educators
    Overview: Elizabeth and Alexis Ferm were early 20th century libertarian educators best known for their work at the Ferrer Colony's Modern School.
    Nationality: American
    Occupation: Educator
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    Abe Bluestein
    American anarchist
    Overview: Abraham "Abe" Bluestein (1909–1997) was an American anarchist who participated in the Spanish Civil War.
    Date of birth: 1909
    Date of death: 1997
    Age: 87 (age at death)
    Occupation: Activist
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    The Modern School Movement (book)
    book by Paul Avrich
    The Modern School Movement (book)
    Overview: The Modern School Movement: Anarchism and Education in the United States is a history book about Ferrer Schools by Paul Avrich.
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    Ferrer Colony and Ferrer Modern School
    American anarchist social center and experimental school
    Ferrer Colony and Ferrer Modern School
    Overview: The Ferrer Center and Stelton Colony were an anarchist social center and colony, respectively, organized to honor the memory of anarchist pedagogue Francisco Ferrer and to build a school based on his model ...
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    Anarchist intentional communities 15T
    1910 establishments in New York City 38T
    Intentional communities in the United States 86T
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    Overview: Joseph Jacob Cohen (1878–1953) was an anarchist who led the Stelton and Mohegan intentional communities and edited the Yiddish anarchist periodical Fraye Arbeter Shtime.
    Date of birth: 31 August 1878
    Date of death: 1953
    Age: 74 (age at death)
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    The Communal Experience
    1973 history book on American cultural radicalism by Laurence Veysey
    The Communal Experience
    Overview: The Communal Experience: Anarchist and Mystical Counter-Cultures in America is a book-length historical and sociological study of cultural radicalism in the United States, written by historian Laurence ...
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