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Farmers with Secret Tunnels: The Rappites of Indiana

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Farmers with Secret Tunnels harvest 100 acres per day by hand.

From Yankee Communes by Flo Morse, 1971 Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.

The following excerpt is from the chapter entitled: The Rappites. Beginning at page 95 we read about the work on their farm on the banks of the Wabash river in Indiana across the river from southern Illinois:

"On the farms and in the shops women were the equals of men and worked side by side with them. Sometimes, swinging sickles, they helped to harvest as much as 100 acres in a single day, an achievement that earned special wine at vesperbrot, their midafternoon lunch and singing break.

In the distant outlying fields the Rappites were overseen by their leader. Sometimes he used a megaphone to prod and direct crews. The English⁽¹⁷⁾ farmers accused him of playing on the field workers' Old World superstitions by means of the underground tunnels and passageways. He⁽¹⁸⁾ was said to use the entrances and exits to emerge suddenly, and then disappear, in the middle of a cornfield or potato patch. There, six feet tall and wearing his customary peaked cap, he seemed like a boulder or bush that would mysteriously fade away."