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From: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
Date: 20061029
Author:JIM BECKERMAN, STAFF WRITER

JIM BECKERMAN, STAFF WRITER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
10-29-2006

ONCE A UTOPIA -- 100 years ago, Upton Sinclair launched the Helicon Hall commune in Englewood
By JIM BECKERMAN, STAFF WRITER
Date: 10-29-2006, Sunday
Section: LIVING
Edtion: All Editions

The new owners of Helicon Hall are sleeping peacefully.

So far.

Of the terrible fire that swept through the Englewood property in 1907, destroying the era's most notorious "radical" commune, there are few signs.

No ghostly moans of vegetarians in the night. No spectral footprints of anarcho-syndicalists in the flower bed.

Whatever lives on there, ...

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