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Green Acre Baháʼí School

January 01, 1970

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The Inn at Green Acre, in Eliot, Maine

Green Acre Baháʼí School is a conference facility in Eliot, Maine, in the United States, and is one of three leading institutions owned by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States. The name of the site has had various versions of "Green Acre" since before its founding in 1894 by Sarah Jane Farmer.

It had a prolonged process of progress and challenge while run by Farmer until about 1913 when she was indisposed after converting to the Baháʼí Faith in 1900. ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, then head of the religion, visited there during his travels in the West in 1912. Farmer died in 1916 and thereafter it had evolved into the quintessential Baháʼí school directly inspiring Louhelen Baháʼí School and Bosch Baháʼí School, the other two of the three schools owned by the national assembly, and today serves as a leading institution of the religion in America. It hosted diverse programs of study, presenters, and been a focus for dealing with racism in the United States through being a significant venue for Race Amity Conventions (later renamed Race Unity Day meetings) and less than a century later the Black Men's Gatherings and further events.

Origin edit

The Piscataqua River by which Green Acre Baháʼí school stands was named from Abenaki Native Americans of the Wabanaki Confederacy describing where a river separates into several parts – "a place where boats and canoes ascending the river together from its mouth were compelled to separate according to their several destinations."[1] The town of Eliot was founded 1810 from Kittery, Maine, which itself was founded in the 1600s.[2] By the mid-1800s the area served as a shipyard, including launching the USS Nightingale in 1851.[3][4][5] At the time of the founding of the school there were some 1,400 people in Eliot and the town has grown in recent years to near 7,000 today.[6]

The Farmers edit

Sarah Farmer's mother, Hannah Tobey Farmer (1823–1891) was raised Methodist.[7]: p.191  Her father, Moses Gerrish Farmer (1820–1893) a Dartmouth graduate in 1844,[8] had success in the new field of electrical engineering and telegraph work and was a heartfelt Christian,[7]: p.192  though he has also been called a Spiritualist[8] and Transcendentalist.[6] Moses and Hannah married in 1844[9] and Sarah was born 1847.[7]: p.186  It is said that the Farmer's home, before they lived in Eliot, was part of the Underground Railroad.[10]

 
Hannah Tobey Farmer
 
Moses G. Farmer

It is unclear when the land in Eliot came to be owned by the Farmer family. However, they lived in a variety of places in New England until, after 1880, when the family moved to Eliot and Moses retired.[9] The home they built in Eliot was called Bittersweat, or Bittersweet-in-the-Fields.[11]: pp.7, 163  Hannah established a memorial non-segregated service called "Rosemary Cottage" as a retreat for unwed or poor mothers and working women[11]: p.7  in Eliot where, for a donation of $7 ($181 in 2014,)[12] families would have a two-week vacation, up to 40 at a time in 1888.[13] In 1887, Sarah re-animated the Eliot Library Association and set a number of meetings with speakers while also serving as secretary and helping build a list of patrons of the library of some 700 people.[11]: p8  Singer Emma Cecilia Thursby recalled her first visit to what was called "Greenacre" was in 1889.[14] Greenacre is and was situated on a bluff overlooking the river which is a mile wide.[15] In 1890, a group of investors signed a contract to set up a hotel initially called the Eliot Hotel or Inn at the site.[11]: p.8  In 1891 there were paying customers staying at the Inn.[16]

Farmer had an originating idea about a spiritual theme for the development of the property in June 1892[7]: pp.311–2  and then journeyed with her father to the Chicago Columbian Exposition in late 1892 where she met with Swedenborgian Charles C. Bonney, the "visionary" behind the World's Parliament of Religions,[7]: p.192  and gained encouragement for her vision for a center of learning for spiritual teachers[7]: pp.17, 192  - an idea blessed by family friends Arthur Wesley Down and John Greenleaf Whittier.[7]: p.80  Her father died that spring, 1893, and she had to leave before the Parliament took place.[17] She took a brief trip to Norway with Sara Chapman Bull in her grief,[11]: p.12  and she made it back to the Parliament only in October 1893 after it was over.[7]: p.192 

Farmer made what she recorded in her diary as a "solemn vow" to building the school for spiritual teachers on 4 February 1894.[7]: p.312  However, by about 1894 the hotel was called a failure and was boarded up when Farmer approached the investors with the plan to use Greenacre as a place to host lectures on religion.[18] Farmer proposed to her investors to use the closed Inn.[18] By 1897, it was capable of housing 75 or more guests and had a number of cottages around the property with a grassy plain that sometimes hosted a tent camp.[15]

Sarah Farmer's inauguration of Greenacre edit

Following the enthusiasm of the Parliament, Farmer set up the beginnings of using the Greenacre Inn as a summer center of cross-religion gatherings and cultural development. She had success attracting support from Bostonian businessmen, wives of businessmen and politicians, most especially Phoebe Hearst.[7]: p.193  The work was inaugurated in 1894[7]: pp.27, 193–4 [19] with her words "The spirit of criticism will be absolutely laid down – if it comes in it will be gently laid aside; each will contribute his best and listen sympathetically to those who present different ideals. The comparison will be made by the audience, not by the teachers."[7]: pp.193–4  The early collection of religious interests was wide - Farmer participated with Spiritualist trance-speakers who appeared to channel her father so convincingly the family dog responded, a fact William James took note of.[7]: p.189 

 
Vivekananda at Greenacre (August 1894)

One of the first such promulgators of spiritual insight there was Carl H. A. Bjerregaard where he would frequent through at least 1896.[7]: pp.25–30  Swami Vivekananda, a prominent Hindu monk serving in interfaith awareness efforts spent nearly two months there in the summer of 1894.[20][21][22][23] His words were printed in the short lived The Greenacre Voice established with the school-and-conference center[24] running at least to 1897.[7]: p.307  A review appeared in the local Boston Evening Transcript.[25]

 
Swami Vivekananda and Sarah Farmer at Green Acre (August 1894)

A short list of presentations was published in the newspaper even as far away as Chicago also featured academic scholars as well as priests presenting on religions:[26] Professor Ernst Fenollosa, Boston Museum of Fine Arts – "The Relation of Religion to Art"; Rev. Dr. Edward Everett Hale, "Sociology"; Rev. Dr. William Alger, "Universal Religion"; Edwin Meade, "Immanuel Kant"; Professor Thomas C. Wild, "Union for Practical Progress"; Frank B Sanborn, "The Humane treatment of Mental and Spiritual Aberrations"; Margaret B. Peeke from Sandusky Ohio, "The Soul in its search after God"; and Abby Morton Diaz, "The Work of humanity for humanity" were among the "well known" presenters but the distinction of the summer school was of lecturers who were younger[7]: p.197  and less well known than those of the earlier Concord School of Philosophy maintained by the Transcendentalists previously which closed about 1887[27] and less about philosophy than of comparative study initially.[7]: p.197  The sessions were positively reviewed.[28] Sanborn would soon be among the leaders operating at Greenacre. Professor Lewis G. Janes was there giving talks on "Darwin and Spencer", "Social Tendencies under Evolution" and "Life as a Fine Art"[29] and would also soon take a leading role in developments as well. There was also something of a windstorm that year.[30] The "school" had a winter session in Cambridge with several repeat appearances hosted by Sara Chapman Bull.[31] Indeed, these winter sessions continued some years and came to be called the Cambridge Conferences directed by Janes.[32]

1895 to 1899 edit

An 1895 address book of Farmer's revealed she had contact information on a number of leaders of thought and religion in America.[7]: pp.187–8  That summer among those that met at the conference center were evolutionists,[33] and Farmer invited Lewis Janes to assist with the program development.[34] Janes was a student of Herbert Spencer.[32] An engine inventor also presented.[35] The conference grew to the point the Inn itself was too small and a tent camp arose as well as buildings to provide shelter from rain or sun were added.[7]: p.26 [24]

In 1896, Sanborn organized an "Emerson Day" (after Ralph Waldo Emerson) and it continued for more than a decade.[7]: p.199  That year a formal reunion of the Concord School of Philosophy was also held. In addition to the talks on art, actual musical concerts, painters, sculptors, poets began to make appearances at Greenacre.[7]: pp.201–2 [36] Strong calls for peace against war from the conference got printed in the Boston Evening Transcript.[37]

The Monsalvat School for the Comparative Study of Religion, a progressive or liberal development seen against conservative religious experience, was established formally in 1896 as an institution hosted at Greenacre and the first director was Lewis Janes.[7]: pp.195–6 [38] Monsalvat was named after the sacred mountain in Wagner's Parsifal where the Holy Grail was kept,[39] though it is most often spelled Montsalvat. However, Farmer and Janes differed often – Janes wanted academic credentials among his speakers and a businesslike plan for the economic solvency of the work by charging everyone rather than trusting on contributions. They had serious difficulty even agreeing on what they were talking about – "This difference of understanding could never have occurred between two men accustomed to business methods," Janes wrote in 1899.[7]: p.196  Farmer framed the school as a place for encounter between religious leaders for "a fuller realization" of unity among religions, and relied on generosity and enthusiasm to overcome the challenges of economy.[7]: p.197  Nevertheless, the school and Greenacre continue to operate and was noted in newspapers.[40]

 
Sarah J. Farmer, published in the New York Times, Sept. 19, 1897
 
Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala in his middle thirties

The August 1897 season opened with the new lecture hall the "Eirenion", ("place of peace",)[11]: p.16  and Sarah Farmer and Greenacre made the New York Times.[15] A book was circulated in Japan about it too.[11]: p.16  Prominent Buddhist monk Anagarika Dharmapala stayed at Greenacre where he worked on practices himself and offered classes and talks on specific meditational disciplines as well as quotes on the teachings of the Buddha.[7]: pp.168–170, 200 [41] He was enthusiastic about the kind of interfaith coming together process of Greenacre. Unitarian Alfred W. Martin closed the 1897 season with a talk "Universal Religion and the World's Religions", the theme of which became his life's work.[7]: pp.136–7  Electrical engineers met at the conference center at least in 1897[42] as the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the electric tolley car.[11]: p.16 

The 1898 session on the Monsalvat school listed a variety of people including Janes himself on "Relation of Science to Religious Thought", Swami Abhedananda on "Vedanta philosophy and Religions of India", "Hebrew Prophets" by Prof. Nathaniel Schmidt, "Literature, Ethics and Philosophy of the Talmud" by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf, "Islam and the Koran" by Emil Nabokoff, "Philosophy and Religions of the Jains" by Vichand Raghavji Gandhi and others.[43]

 
Franklin Benjamin Sanborn in 1900

A diary of Charles W. Chesnutt noted he was a replacement speaker for Walter Hines Page for a talk in 1899 on the condition of African-Americans in the South, and commented on witnessing a diversity of clothing representing cultures of the world.[44] Farmer's farewell address for the 1899 season was printed in the Boston Evening Transcript and contained warm thoughts of the development of the work and its ongoing goals.[45] A beatific booklet Greenacre on the Piscataqua of some 22 pages with a section written in August 1899 and another in September 1900 was published.[4] Baháʼís have identified a quote from the religion in the 1899 program and speculate Farmer had heard of the religion.[11]: pp.27–9  However, in Farmer's life and the structure of Greenacre there was crisis. According to scholar Eric Leigh Schmidt Sanborn was working for a "creation of a new shrine" for transcendentalism akin to reforming the Concord school centered on Emerson and used his coverage work of Greenacre in newspaper stories to frame that development while at the same time Janes drifted explicitly from Farmer's approach by charging people for the classes and insisting on academic credentials and approaches to understand the diversity of religions.[7]: pp.199–200  Janes' disconnect from Farmer had reached the point of shutting down the Monsalvat school.[46] There were also tensions between Sanborn and Janes and among other groups.[47] There had been speculation on Farmer being bought out,[48] creditors were nervous,[49] and her business partners had thought to force Farmer to sell out.[18]

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1900–1906 edit

Farmer's encounter with the Baháʼí Faith edit

While her partners were seeking to meet with her, Farmer was already aboard the SS Fürst Bismarck out of New York as a guest of Maria P. Wilson[50] trying to release herself of her worries in first week of January 1900.[51] Wilson and Farmer ran into friends Josephine Locke and Elizabeth Knudson aboard ship – and eventually learned they were on the way to see ʻAbdu'l-Bahá who was leader of a new religion and had in their possession an early prayer book.[50] Wilson was dubious but eventually the ladies changed their plans and went along. They waited in Egypt[52] where there are pictures of her with Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl and scenes there,[11]: pp.28, 32  before leaving for Haifa March 23, 1900.[11]: p.29 

A few years later her friend Mary Hanford Ford related some of what took place meeting ʻAbdu'l-Bahá as a second hand account. A few facts are detailed - Farmer had met ʻAbdu'l-Bahá and accepted the religion on one occasion, and on another wanted to ask him a series of questions in the context of a review of her whole life - but when she wrote it all down she left the notebook in the hurry of being called to come to him in the early morning. She reported he answered the questions spontaneously and in the right order starting in such a way that the translator was confused because no question had been asked. At the end of that interview she cried "... strange tears of ecstatic happiness, and went to her room to recover the composure which had been shaken by these surprising and illuminating events."[53] This list of questions is referred to in another briefer recollection.[54] Anise Rideout had a similar record of the incident.[50] Rideout reports that ʻAbdu'l-Bahá wrote an inscription in Farmer's Bible dated March 26. For Maria Wilson's part she also joined the religion and was the first Baháʼí to move to Boston.

After being in Haifa and Egypt the women also spent some time in Paris among a small group of Baháʼís after the visit,[50][55] and Rome.[56]

Back at Greenacre edit

The Summer 1900 program went on without Farmer,[57] though the Monsalvat school was suspended that year.[24] Farmer returned to the United States in November,[39] injured on arrival according to one account.[54] There were also reports that the translator at the meeting had come to the United States with Farmer on the return voyage.[54] She was noted back in Eliot in May 1901.[58] An organizational meeting came together May 22 and dedicated a site on nearby "Mount Monsalvat", as Farmer called it, to eventually host a school.[59] Kate C. Ives was among those present. That Spring of 1901 she also met with Phoebe Hearst,[55] who herself had been to see ʻAbdu'l-Bahá a few years earlier and she too had adopted the religion.

Farmer was publicly linked with the religion in June 1901.[60] Of the Baháʼí Faith, it was explained, "... she has found the common faith in which all devout souls may unite and yet be free."[60] At the time there were some 700 Baháʼís in the United States.[7]: p.190 

Amidst her conflict with Janes and newfound attachment to the Baháʼí Faith she offered free classes in parallel, even conflicting on time, with Janes' Monsalvat school classes.[24] In 1901 the charge for the entire season of classes with Janes' group was five dollars for the Monsalvat school[61]: p.126  – in inflation terms that would be $140 in 2014.[12]

Schmidt featured Farmer and Greenacre in a chapter "Freedom and Self-Surrender" of a book Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality published by the University of California Press in 2012:

The struggle at the heart of liberal spirituality ... was over the firmness and fragility of religious identity in the modern world. ... Was the point precisely the freedom of spiritual seeking? Or was the real point to find a well-marked path and to submit to the disciplines of a new religious authority in order to submerge the self in a larger relationship to God and community? ... Farmer's eventual acceptance of the Baha'i faith or "the Persian Revelation" ... discomfited her liberal, universalistic friends, many of whom preferred ongoing inquiry to actually finding one path to follow. For Farmer, the vision that she found in the Baha'i faith of a new age of religious unity, racial reconciliation, gender equality, and global peace was the fulfillment of Transcendentalism's reform impulses and progressivism's millennial dreams. To her skeptical associates, her turn to the Persian Revelation represented a betrayal of their deepest ideals as free-ranging seekers whose vision of a cosmopolitan piety dimmed at the prospect of one movement serving as a singular focus for the universal religion.[7]: pp.184–6 

Nevertheless, Farmer focused the efforts of the institution on Baháʼí themes. In her words in 1902:

My joy in the Persian Revelation is not that it reveals one of the streams flowing to the great Ocean of Life, Light and Love, but that it is a perfect mirror of that Ocean. What, in Green Acre, was a vision and a hope becomes, through it a blessed reality now. It has illuminated for me every other expression of Truth which I had hitherto known and place my feet on a Rock from which they cannot be moved. And it is the Manifestation of the Fatherhood - Behá'u'lláh (ed - as it was spelled in those days) - who had taught me to look away from even the Greatest and find within the One 'Powerful, Mighty, and Supreme' who is to be the Redeemer of my life. It is a Revelation of Unity such as I had never before found. By means of its Light, as shown the life of the Master Abbas Abdul Beha, I have entered into a joy greater than any I have hitherto known. Green Acre was established as a means to that end and in proportion as well lay aside all spirit of criticism of others and seek only to live the Unity we find, shall we be able to help others to the same divine realization.[7]: p.206 

 
Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl-i-Gulpáygání

Farmer opened the 1901 session at Greenacre with an address "The Revelation of Baháʼu'lláh and its relation to the Monsalvat School" while others gave related talks – "The New Jerusalem, or the City We Want", "Lecture on the Persian Revelation", and "Utterances of Baháʼu'lláh."[62] Mírzá Abu'l-Faḍl, among the most scholarly trained Baháʼís of the time, was there,[60][63]: p.80 [64] and his talk was "Lectures on the Revelations of the Báb and Baháʼu'lláh of Persia".[62] Ali Kuli Khan, to serve as his translator, arrived in the United States in June.[65] Abu'l-Faḍl had accompanied Anton Haddad, the first Baháʼí to live in the United States, on his return trip to America. They had been sent by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.[64] The later well known Baháʼí Agnes Baldwin Alexander, later appointed to a high office of the religion, was also there.[66] Esther Davis reports others were there that summer of 1901: she herself, Raffii, the translator at one of Farmer's meetings with ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, and "Mother Beecher" (Ellen Tuller Beecher.)[54] Mary Hanford Ford was there giving one of her talks on literature,[62] and it was at these classes with Abu'l-Faḍl it is considered she joined the religion.[63][67] Out of this the community of Baháʼís began to form in Boston. Farmer and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá began an active exchange of letters some twenty-plus of his which were gathered and printed initially in 1909 and then the third edition in 1919.[11]: p.38 [68]

Nevertheless, Farmer did not embark on a heavy handed approach to the presence of the religion and made various compromises to limit its mention and presence,[7]: p.207  and this fits the Baháʼí teaching about not proselytizing.[69] Her problems did not go away though Janes suddenly died in the fall of 1901.[7]: p.196  A memorial was held at Greenacre September 6.[32] Fillmore Moore, the director of the Comparative Religion school after Janes, continued the criticism.[7]: p.210  Others sided with Janes' views including Sanborn and investor Sara Chapman Bull.[24] Meanwhile, a number of eastern teachers presenting their own religions, beyond those of the Baháʼís themselves, began to appear officially on the programs of Monsalvat School beyond those of academically interested non-believers - Muslim Shehadi Abd-Allah Shehadi in 1901,[70] (and later lived in Providence, RI and had a park named after him,)[71] Buddhist Sister Sanghamitta before she left for India as a new convert,[72] B. S. Kimura of Japan, in 1902, Dharmpala, M. Barukatulah, Baha Premanand in 1904, and C. Jinaradadaen in 1905.[73] Fadl and Khan were profiled along with a review of the religion in 1903.[74]

Ralph Waldo Trine wrote a book while at Greenacre[7]: p.153  and published it in 1903.[75] Additionally music concerts became more common – one of the first was directed by early Baháʼí Edward Kinney.[76] Myron H. Phelps, as part of the transition of the Monsalvat School in his position as director in 1904 and 5[73] gave a talk on the religion at the 1904 conference following his 1903 book, (though it was later judged to be full of inaccuracies by the Baháʼís.)[77][78] Articles based on the work were printed in various journals, some noting Greenacre as well.[79]

In the face of the changing realms of support Phoebe Hearst was particularly stabilizing for Farmer in 1902 followed by Helen E. Cole in 1906.[24][80] Another factor in the progress of Greenacre was that steamer boat service from Portsmouth ran regularly in 1895,[11]: p.16  and the arrival of electric train service in Eliot near the hotel in 1902.[81] Finally in 1902 Farmer initiated a voluntary board – a "Fellowship" – "a sustaining body to help carry forward the Green Acre Conferences of which Sarah J. Farmer is the director."[82] Amidst this Farmer's personal home burned to the ground in 1904,[10] and Randolph Bolles, whose sister and niece were well known Baháʼís, took up residence living there until he died in 1939.[83]

 
 
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Green Acre and Boston

Year of Peace edit

In 1904 and 1905 Japanese diplomats visited Greenacre – Yokoyama Taikan, Okakura Kakuzō and Kentok Hori, signing Farmer's autograph book with quotations and drawings for a special tea service and presentations.[11]: pp.44–6  As an institution Greenacre developed a brief set of "branch" associations including one in Washington D.C. in 1905[84] that began to host peace conferences.[85][86][87]

Farmer's connections and determination for peace was such that she was present at the signing of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty and indeed was the only woman on the naval base.[11]: pp.50–51 [88][89] The event was remembered in more recent times.[90][91] Diplomats from the treaty meeting attended functions at Greenacre.[6] Some 300 attended, including a few reporters from Japan, though President Roosevelt and the Russian delegation did not.[11]: pp.47–9  There were several talks presented on peace including by Minister Takahira and Ali Kuli Khan, who, in a letter to his wife Florence Breed Khan, called it the most important day in the history of Green Acre to that point.

At the same time a few became interested in the Baháʼí Faith at Green Acre – Harlan Ober and Alfred E. Lunt were Bostonians who joined the religion in the summer of 1905 at Greenacre[63]: pp.218–9  with Ober learning of the religion first through Lua Getsinger[92] and Alice Buckton,[93] and then Lunt learned of the religion from Ober.[94]

 
Harlan Ober in 1907
 
Alfred E. Lunt (1910)

Ober had been in shipping interests.[93] Ober and Lunt were leaders in Republican party politics on college campuses,[95][96] in the era of the Fourth Party System also known as the Progressive Era. About 1905 a formal board to supervise Greenacre called the "Green Acre Fellowship" superseded the earlier voluntary one and was arranged with five trustees – Francis Keefe, Aldred E. Lunt, Horatio Dresser, Maria Wilson, and Fillmore Moore, (two were Baháʼí, three not.)[97]

In the summer of 1906 Stanwood Cobb learned of the religion from a series of articles in the Boston Transcript and went to Green Acre to learn more.[7][98]: pp.216, 224  He conversed with Sarah Farmer.[99] Thornton Chase, the "first occidental Baháʼí" was also there giving a series of talks.[100] It was on that occasion that Cobb joined the religion.[101] Others were also there giving talks,[102] as well as a meeting of civil war veterans.[103] Ponnambalam Ramanathan's talk that year was featured in the Boston Evening Transcript.[104]

Others also came to Greenacre. In 1906 among others noted, then Third assistant Secretary of State Huntington Wilson, then retired General O. O. Howard, and Ex-Governor John Green Brady of Alaska all gave talks or hosted meetings.[80] Marsden Hartley took a job as a handyman there and through his association he secured his first exhibition,[105] and was friends with Ober and Lunt.[106]

1907–1912 edit

In 1907 it was still possible to review things at Greenacre without mentioning Baháʼís.[107] May Wright Sewall spoke in 1907 at Green Acre.[108] Newspaper coverage began to cover the division and resolution at Greenacre[73] and Farmer managed to keep the reputation of Greenacre high through 1907.[7]: p.210  Coverage of events occurred in Indianapolis.[109]

Baháʼís sometimes objected that contradictory ideas were presented together while others sometimes objected there was too much Baháʼí coverage.[63]: pp.217–8  ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's advise to Farmer was to be more direct about the religion and less supportive of "mouldered, two thousand years old superstitions".[7]: pp.208–9, 313  However, in 1907 other events took hold when, at the age of 60, Farmer fell off a train car in Boston, was injured and never fully recovered.[7]: pp.190, 210–1  She checked herself into McLean Hospital possibly with a severe injury to her back, when it was a sanitorium.[6]

The 1908 season went on though with perhaps a reduced schedule.[110] Fillmore Moore pressed her to surrender the right of trustee appointing and issued a pained statement in 1909.[11]: p.53  Writer Diane Iverson feels Farmer progressed in her hospitalization over a broken heart from the contention over Greenacre.[6] Her care transferred to a private duty nurse in Portsmouth and from there, when she "became 'too much to handle'", into the care of early psychologist Dr. Edward Cowles.[6]

Farmer's last public appearance at Green Acre was in 1909.[7]: p.210  The season was successful with singer Mary Lucas[111] (who had joined the religion in 1905,)[112] and many others.[113] That year the Green Acre Fellowship board voted to rebuild Farmer's residence on the site of her father's home at a cost of $5000.[82]

Farmer changed her will to bequeath Greenacre to the Baháʼís in the event of her death via an agent of Phoebe Hearst.[10][114] Her family involuntarily committed her to a mental institution[94][115] in July 1910,[7]: pp.190, 210–1  At the same time the by-laws of the institution allowed Farmer to appoint 3 of its 5 trustees, fill vacancies, and remove any of the trustees.[82] All this was just before the centenary of the town of Eliot itself was celebrated including at Greenacre.[116] Meanwhile, early Canadian Baháʼís, the Magees, began to be regular summer visitors.[117] Among the several presenters and singers were a few Baháʼís,[118] as well as W. E. B. Du Bois and Swami Paramananda. [119] Ali Kuli Khan was appointed Iranian Charge D'Affaires in Washington D. C. in 1910.[120]

A review of the history of Greenacre was published in 1911 in the local paper though there was more description of the alienness of Vivekananda in racist terms.[121] The season had many speakers.[122]

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá in the area edit

Main article: ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's journeys to the West

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá, then head of the religion, embarked on travels to the West following release from imprisonment.[123] While the regular season at Greenacre ran in July,[124] he was there from 16 to 23 August.[125][126][127]

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá referred to renaming it "Green Acre" vs "Greenacre" in relation to the Baháʼí presence where the founder of the religion is buried - referring to Acre, Syria.[7]: p.207  Though Farmer herself referred to "Green Acre" since 1902[7]: p.206  and publicly in 1903[7]: p.195  and the formation documents of the Fellowship also used "Green Acre"[82] - nevertheless Schmidt notes the change in use as a dividing line among the groups involved.[7]: p.185  Another name sometimes used is "Green-acre-on-the-Piscataqua" dating from 1897[128] and in modern times.[10] Greenacre itself as a name for the site seems to predate the building of the hotel.[11]: pp.10–11 

Some five[129]: p.125  or eight hundred people were there to hear ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's first talk.[130] The talk was about ways of knowing the truth – he disavowed individual approaches like pure reason, simple authority, individual inspiration, etc., but affirmed:

[A] statement presented to the mind accompanied by proofs which the senses can perceive to be correct, which the faculty of reason can accept, which is in accord with traditional authority and sanctioned by the promptings of the heart, can be adjudged and relied upon as perfectly correct, for it has been proved and tested by all the standards of judgment and found to be complete.[130]

Some repudiated their former beliefs in the sanctity in pure inspiration.[129]: p.125 

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá then visited Farmer at her home.[11]: 60 

That evening ʻAbdu'l-Bahá addressed the audience at the Eirenion and he wrote a prayer for Farmer.[11]: pp.60–1  He was in the program speaking August 16, 17, 18, and 19 with Herbert Peckham speaking at most of the remaining schedule of the week. Several of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's talks were gathered and published in The Promulgation of Universal Peace pages 253–275.[11]: p.63  He also visited the homes of other Baháʼís – Mason Remey, Carrie and Edward Kinney. At other talks members of the audience wept during his prayers or fainted. He spoke to a girls club camp group by the river on August 19.[129]: p.127  In a letter he declared Farmer was not insane but experiencing "religious exultation" and not suffering from female hysteria as these things were viewed in the day.[6] He met with individuals on other days at Green Acre or the home of Kate Ives, the first woman member of the religion,[131] offering advice and a listening ear to each.[11]: p.75 

Fred Mortensen arrived August 20.[129]: p.126 [132][133] Mortensen had been a criminal that fled arrest – his lawyer was Baháʼí Albert Hall of Minnesota from whom he learned of the religion. Riding from Minneapolis to Cleveland he then went on to Green Acre – all by way of Freighthopping. Being introduced in a crowd he was embarrassed at his dirty appearance and then was told to sit down amid the company of people in fine dress and wait but soon ʻAbdu'l-Bahá returned and began to speak closely with Mortensen His inquiry revealed how Mortensen had traveled.

 
 
 
Panorama of those at feast of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá at Green Acre;
ʻAbdu'l-Bahá is seated in the right most picture on the far left.

Mortensen had arrived on a day ʻAbdu'l-Baha had arranged as a feast[129]: p.129  which was held on "Mount Monsalvat" and a large panomramic picture taken.[11]: pp.76–7  Mortensen is seated farthest on the left. Farmer was also reportedly there led by the hand by ʻAbdu'l-Bahá across the hill for a few minutes and had a long conversation then publicly pointed out the area would be host to the second Baháʼí Temple for America as well as a university and then praised Farmer openly.[11]: pp.78–9 

There followed a few more talks and farewell visits on topics like elimination of prejudice. He was said to characterize the work as "like that of the exhausted iron worker's apprentice whose master said to him 'Die, but pump.'[11]: p.81 

ʻAbdu'l-Bahá again visited Farmer and they went on a car tour including a stop to view the shipyard where the treaty had been signed.[11]: p.72  On the return trip she was not allowed to step off the car when it stopped at Green Acre.[39]

On the last day at Green Acre he met with individuals and then left stopping at Farmer's hospitalization again this time by carriage – she wept at his feet on that occasion.[7]: pp.211–5 [11]: p.81 

Baháʼí management edit

1913–1916 edit

With news that Farmer was visible, if only briefly, her health was celebrated, but the "more urgent" appeal by some was to warn people that Green Acre was "threatened with dire calamity" in June 1913.[134] A meeting in June seemed to present a calm front, and noted Farmer had previously appointed a guardian while she was indisposed,[97] but the controversy continued in July.[135] What had happened was that the terms of the trust Green Acre had specified authority resting on Farmer as long as she could direct the program.[10] However, in 1913 she could not and a re-arrangement was undertaken by the board allowing a trustee to run the conference and maintain the program - a step feared by the Sanborn and Fillmore affiliated groups.[10] Sanborn published arguments over rights of access.[82] Public rallies were echoed in print in Open Court and newspapers especially opposing a sense of the religious self-surrender and the foreignness of the Baháʼí Faith.[7]: pp.221–3  Nevertheless, the board was expanded to nine members and William Randall, shipping businessman[136] and Baháʼí since before 1912,[137] was appointed a trustee,[11]: p.83  and only one was not a Baháʼí.[7]: p.211  Scary headlines in various places continued near and far.[138] A program was carried on regardless.[11]: p.83  Kate Ives, the first Baháʼí of Boston, wrote a letter to the editor inviting Portsmouth residents to a talk on the religion.[139] Debates began about who was Farmer's guardian started in January 1914 with news there was another guardian of her affairs.[140] But Farmer then had been declared sane in February,[141] though the matter was raised again in March when Farmer's family sought to have her guardian appointed by them.[142] Amidst partisan charges in the newspaper the doctor agreed Farmer was sane and competent to run her own affairs in June.[143]

Meanwhile, in May 1914 Alfred E. Lunt was elect to the national leadership of the religion[144] along with William Randall.[145]

The controversy at Green Acre grew more tense. In July Farmer's mental condition was challenged with complaints and support statements all brought into court again as well as the rightful jurisdiction of two guardians of Farmer raised to superior courts.[146]

The July 1914 program at Green Acre went on – it included a talk by later Baháʼí Howard Colby Ives which was printed in the newspaper,[147] as well as Alice Breed, Alfred E. Lunt, and others,[148] while others gave protesting talks from the street.[7]: pp.209–10  The Fellowship board of Green Acre had argued over money ultimately in court which was settled, but the propriety of the expanded elected board was affirmed and required by-law amendments to be not just by the trustees but by the whole group of investors.[149]

Early Canadian Baháʼí Hariet Magee died at Green Acre in January 1915.[117] Early in 1915 Randall oversaw the electrification of the Inn and driveway.[11]: p.165  Following the Baháʼí participation at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in spring 1915,[150] Lunt again served on the national board of Baháʼís in the United States;[151] this time as president,[152] with Ober as secretary.[153] Baháʼís then began to buy several neighboring properties to Green Acre.[11]: p.86  Still Farmer was not released from hospitalization despite several rounds of judging her sane and fit to mind her own affairs and she had been treated with drugs and electroshock therapy.[6] Now Baháʼís began to plan for Farmer's release - primarily William Randall, Urbain Ledoux, and Montford Mills[7][24][94]: pp.211–2 [154] – and tried various approaches. Ultimately they gathered a chief of police and a judge to accompany a court order with some intercepting the doctor physically and others carried Farmer to a waiting car to effect her freedom.[154][155][156] A cousin of Farmer, Helen Green, also participated and recorded her testimony retained in the Baháʼí national archives.[11]: p. 86  Randall and Ober and others were visible at Green Acre a week later.[157] Farmer managed to have her next birthday in comparative freedom, quietly.[158] ʻAbdu'l-Bahá praised the work freeing Farmer.[159] There was a session that summer at Green Acre.[160]

The case was appealed questioning jurisdiction in the argument over guardians in late 1915.[161][162] The courts settled the case over guardianship against Sanborn's group in 1916.[163] Meanwhile, the donation of Helen Cole in 1902 was set for building what became called the Fellowship House constructed in the middle 1916.[11]: pp.108, 165  Farmer was interviewed in the Boston Post in August during which the reporter had an experience he couldn't explain, (though there also several typos in the article and mis-labeling),[164] and Farmer then died in November,[165] while walking in her family cemetery.[6] There was a guard to protect her body lest it be taken.[166] Sanborn called for an official inquiry of her death.[163] The eulogy was read by Kate Ives and attending were Lunt, Ober and Randall among others of Boston and the area - Ober was noted an officer of Green Acre along with Lunt.[167] With Farmer and her Will supporting the Baháʼís the case ended. The transcendentalists school were, to put it mildly, upset, as were the supporters of the academic school.[7]: pp.209–10, 313–4 [24][61] The Baháʼís inherited the $25k in debt too.[168] Though at the time the newspaper coverage was dismissive over her work,[6] modern coverage noted "She anticipated the peace movement, women's liberation and the New Age culture."[6] Farmer's contribution was considered a "singularly important" to the development of Baháʼí schools.[169] Posthumously, Shoghi Effendi, later head of the religion, appointed her as one of the Disciples of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.[11]: p.88  Baháʼís noted her individual service as raising a status of organization vs institutionalization, setting a place for the rise of some of Americas' most active supporters of the religion, and the very nature of that place. However, liberal religious idealization noticed that a democratic system had awarded Green Acre to sectarian view.[170] It is true that before 1900 there were about a half dozen Baháʼís in New England and that most of the growth of the religion in the region is attributed to the work done at Green Acre.[63]: pp.142–7 

There is no record of a summer session in 1916. Ober wrote a letter to the editor about the religion and Green Acre earlier in August.[171]

Green Acre and contributing to the national leadership edit

Further information: Baháʼí administration

The 1917 Spring national convention of Baháʼís with meetings held at Green Acre[151][172] and Boston.[173] In 1917 William Randall was again elected to the national board of the religion and that year he was elected as president of the board[174] and Harlan Ober was elected to the board as well.[175] Among the speakers on the summer schedule at Green Acre in 1917 were Horace Holley, Randall, Albert R. Vail, Louis G. Gregory, Eshteal Ebn Kalanter, Lunt, and Albert Hall.[176] Randall spoke at Green Acre on "The mission of Green Acre" and another "Talks of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá" as well as others by Frederick Strong on several topics as well as Edward Getsinger.[177]

The military discussed taking over the Green Acre property for its workmen in 1918.[178] Randall was again elected to the national board of the religion, this time as treasurer, in 1918.[179] Though the Inn did not open there was still a summer session with James F. Morton Jr. and a national Esperanto conference being held.[180] Martha Root attended.[11]: p.85  And Mr and Mrs. Ober, Lunt, and May Maxwell were noted in the services for the funeral program for a close friend of Farmer who died.[181] Randall along with Juliet Thompson, May Maxwell and Albert Vail, debated the position of Green Acre on whether to raise the Peace Flag and ultimately decided it should be raised. Prayers were said at Green Acre to end World War I.[11]: p.91 

Randall was on Baháʼí pilgrimage after the war, in 1919 and ʻAbdu'l-Bahá encouraged him to continue the work of Farmer at Green Acre.[11]: p.91  Randall served as the administrator of Green Acre from 1919 to 1929 when he died. Harlan Ober was at the 1919 national convention of Baháʼís was held in New York.[182] The 1919 convention was a major event in the religion because it was also the place the Tablets of the Divine Plan of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá were published.

Traveling teacher of the religion Fádil Mazandarání gave several talks at Green Acre in 1920.[183][184] Randall was elected to the national board again in 1920[185] as treasurer[186] and addressed the convention.[187] Randall was listed as the contact for announcing events and reserving rooms at Green Acre in 1920 by Albert Vail.[188]

Siegfried Schopflocher, later to become another Hand of the Cause, joined the religion at Green Acre in 1921 and helped improve the property.[117][189] A Tea House and gift shop were established.[11]: p.92  Paul Haney and May Maxwell were also known at the facility in 1921.[190] A major memorial for the death of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá was held in 1922.[191] Otherwise there is no known program in 1921. In 1922 a program was carried on by Louis Gregory, Albert Watson, Juliet Putnam, George Latimer, Mr. and Mrs. Aldo Randagger, Mrs. E. Boye, W H Randall.[192] Randall was appointed to the supervisory board of the Baháʼí periodical Star of the West in 1922,[193] and contributed an article on Green Acre.[194] In 1923 he was noted as chairman of the board of Green Acre[195] while continuing as treasurer[196] for the newly designated National Spiritual Assembly.[197] A general renovation was begun in 1921 and completed in 1924 – repairs, painting, and clearing away scrub growth, etc., was done.[198] A program went on in 1923 with Fádil Mazandarání giving a talk,[183] among the program that summer.[10][199] The "Eirenion" burned down in 1924,[200] right before the summer season of Green Acre was held with an international theme and presence and the first appearance of Glenn A. Shook, professor of Wheaton College (Massachusetts).[201]

In 1925 there were a number of developments. First the national convention was held at Green Acre.[11]: p.94  Famous African-American leader Alain Locke, a Baháʼí since 1918, spoke at the 1925 convention.[202] Second, the national election was held under new rules fully endorsed by the head of the religion. That year a local assembly was elected for the first time in Eliot.[11]: p.94  And lastly it was announced the administrative offices of the religion would be run from Green Acre.[203] The members of the Eliot local assembly were – Horace and Doris Holley, Kate Ives, Ivy Drew Edwards, Marion Jack, Colonel Henry and Mary Culver, Ella Roberts and Phillip Marangella. Lunt was noted on the board of trustees of Green Acre.[204] Baháʼí Mary Lucas who had performed at Green Acre several times held her professional school for singers there.[205]

While the history of persecution of Baháʼís in Persia goes back some many years the first known newspaper mention in the area was in 1926.[206] That summer the program was "Green Acre Summer School of World Unity" in August.[207]: p.159  But the National Assembly acquired direct authority of the Green Acre establishment.[11]: p.166  At the same time the national assembly began a "Plans of Unified Action" process that included a plan to centralize all Baháʼí funding of projects through one national fund including Green Acre resulting in a learning process for the assembly and the community in maintaining priorities in a nationwide context – a process that extended into the 1930s during the Great Depression.[208] Education reformer Stanwood Cobb established "Mast Cove Camp" at Eliot that year too.[209]

Programs and model edit

In 1927 Green Acre hosted its first Race Amity Convention in mid-July[202] following an initiative push by Shoghi Effendi, then head of the religion, in April.[207]: p.175 [210] The first convention had been held in Washington D.C. in 1921 followed by a lapse, and this 1927 convention was arranged by a committee appointed by the US Baháʼí National Spiritual Assembly – Agnes Parsons, Coralie F. Cook, Louis Gregory, Zia Bagdadi, Alain Locke, Elizabeth G. Hopper and Isabel Ives, (though Locke appears on the program he did not actually speak at the convention.)[202] Prominent contributors at the convention included Devere Allen of The World Tomorrow, Samuel McComb of the Emmanuel Movement, Rev. William Stafford Jones and recent pilgrims Edwina Powell and S. E. J. Oglesby.[210] According to Louis Gregory he had to chair one of the sessions "so that the affair would not be too one-sided" in the face of low participation despite "a little under-current of bad feeling" among some Baháʼís.[207]: p.212  This proved the first of a series of annual race amity conferences.[207]: p.181  However, the event turned out to be so successful that money from the national budget to support the event was in fact covered by generous individuals caught up in the event and instead the allotment of about $400,[207]: p.186 (alittle over $5400 in 2014 dollars,)[12] was returned to be contributed to the costs for building the American Baháʼí Temple.[207]: p.184  There was a peace program the following August.[211]

The success of Green Acre as a Baháʼí institution began to inspire other regional schools for the religion: first came Bosch Baháʼí School becoming more formally a Baháʼí school in 1927 and another in 1931 at Louhelen Baháʼí School.[169]

The pace of race amity meetings continued nationwide for Baháʼís into 1928 when it was again held at Green Acre in August.[207]: pp.183–4  Randall also took part in it.[212] Perhaps Randall's final appearance was August 1928 at a commemoration of the visit of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá to Green Acre.[213] Randall died Feb 11, 1929.[93] Meanwhile, in 1928 Ober gave a talk in Brooklyn,[214] and Grace hosted an evening social at Green Acre.[215] That year the official board of Green Acre, the "Fellowship", formally deeded Green Acre to a trustees appointed by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States.[168] Lunt served on the national assembly that year.[216]

The regular program at Green Acre ran in 1930 with talks and services by Albert Vail, Glenn Shook, Stanwood Cobb, Genevieve Coy, Doris Gregory, Allen McDaniel, A B Herst, Mrs Willard McKay, and Louis Gregory.[217][218] A third Race Amity Convention was also held at Green Acre that year despite the onset of The Great Depression[202][207]: p.187 [219] and among which officers of the national Urban League assisted.[207]: p.188  The 1931 summer conference included a talk by William Leo Hansberry of Howard University discussing the science behind recognizing "Negro civilizations in Ancient Africa".[207]: p.190  In the 1930s Genevieve Coy directed studies at Green Acre and more formal classes were undertaken than lectures – on languages and Baháʼí texts for example.[10] Fundraising at Green Acre was undertaken to aid in the construction of the Baháʼí House of Worship (Wilmette, Illinois).[10] By 1932 both Farmer and Randall were noted as Disciples of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.[11]: p.166  The 1932 season was noted in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[220] The Ober family purchased a home near Green Acre in 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression,[221] and Harlan soon was reading on the radio at Portsmouth's WHEB station weekly after noon from spring into the fall from 1933 into 1935 (with occasional gaps).[222] Grace spoke at the Portsmouth chapter of Hadassah[223] and Ober was also visible at other events – a funeral,[224] and several series of talks in 1933.[225] In 1933 he also gave a program series on "Psychology and Life" for Alpha Beta sorority[226] and a ladies club.[227] The regular summer season at Green Acre took place.[228][229][230][231] Glenn Shook's talk was profiled in the local paper.[232] And a "Race Amity Conference" was held too,[207]: p.194 [233] following which Gregory expressed satisfaction with the now long history of Race Amity meetings at Green Acre despite the economic troubles during the Great Depression.[207]: p.212 

A Race Amity Convention was held at a time when few others were being held across the country[207]: p.198  in August 1934.[234][235] It proved to be the last in the 1930s.[207]: p.214  In 1936 the national assembly had noted that race amity meetings had sometimes emphasized race differences rather than unity and reconciliation when held at a national level and instead asked local communities to provide meetings which a few communities continued to do later into the 1930s.[207]: pp.213–4  In November Ober gave a talk in Eliot for the Christian Endeavor Society,[236] and Zeta Alpha Men's Club of a Baptist church.[237] The family wintered in New York to February 1935,[238] and their college student daughter visited them in the summer of 1935.[239] There was also smaller race amity conference that year as part of the general session.[207]: p.211  It hosted week long course on "Racial likenesses and differences: the scientific evidence and the Baháʼí Teachings" by Genevieve Coy and there were individual talks by Coy, Glenn Shook, Standwood Cobb, Lunt and Samuel Chiles Mitchell, past president of the University of South Carolina (1909–1913).[207]: p.212 

Ober was a substitute speaker in January 1936 at Green Acre,[240] and lead a funeral there.[241] The Summer schedule at Green Acre went on[242] including Montford Mills, Louis G. Gregory, Manses L. Sato, Dorothy Beecher Baker, Mary Collison, Hishmat Alai, and featuring Stanwood Cobb.[243] Then there was another "Race Amity" session during the summer session of the school.[244] The structure of the classes and offerings at Green Acre further transitioned from summer conferencing to focused classes that year too noting participation by Horace Holley, Edward H. Adams, Louis G. Gregory with music by Evelyn Loveday, sessions by Mrs. M. B. Trotman, Maxwell Miller, Mrs. Bishp Lewis, Ludmilla Bechtold, Theodore C. A. McCardy, and more music by Martha Boutwell.[245]

After serving on the national assembly off an on into the 1930s Lunt died from an illness in 1937 and Shoghi Effendi asked the entire national assembly to assemble at his gravesite on his behalf in Boston.[207]: p.232–3  That year a Hall was built replacing the burned down Eirenion a decade earlier and the fourth floor of the Inn was renovated.[10][246][247][248]

Grace Ober died immediately after giving a talk at the Chicago Baháʼí national convention in April 1938 – Harlan was then serving on the national spiritual assembly after traveling in Louisville Kentucky.[249] Harlan gave the next talk at Green Acre that July 1938,[250] and the August schedule for Green Acre took place.[251] Ober then toured universities in December,[252] and served on the Green Acre summer committee for the school in 1939.[253] The 1939 season at Green Acre went on[254] with among the teachers Louis Gregory, and Horace Holley and officers of the program committee including Mrs. Harold Bowman, Ober, Lorna Tasker and Marjorie Wheeler; and there was a focus on discussing international problems.[255]

Nancy Bowditch edit

Main article: Nancy Douglas Bowditch

Also known as Mrs. Harold Bowditch, Nancy was the daughter of George de Forest Brush who was active in Dublin, New Hampshire, as well as Europe.[256][257][258] Though she was among those who had met ʻAbdu-l-Bahá at Green Acre her life changed with the unexpected death of her husband shortly after and she and her new child soon moved away - it wasn't until she came across the religion again in 1927 and heard Randal speak that she considered the religion. This may have been an event the Boston Baháʼí community hosted called a "World Unity Conference" as part of a series sponsored by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baháʼís of the United States. A report of the conference was published in the Boston Evening Transcript.[259] Randall helped organize and spoke at it.[260] She then credits Randall, Louise Drake Wright and her sister Mrs. George Nelson as aiding her inquiry into the religion while she read books like Baháʼu'lláh and the New Era.[257] She officially joined the religion in 1929.[257] She was visible in the 1930 Race Amity Convention held at Green Acre,[261] and left on Baháʼí pilgrimage in late March 1931 with her then 19 yr old daughter.[257] They spent three weeks in the area of Haifa and left by way of Jerusalem taking in Christian paths of pilgrimage.[257] She then attended the 1931 national convention reporting on events in Boston as the chair of the Boston Assembly.[262]

Bowditch repeated her activity at the Green Acre Race Amity conference in 1934[263] including an event at her home.[264] In 1936 she assisted in World Order magazine publications with some cover art.[265] In 1937 she offered a talk for the summer program at Green Acre that also dedicated a new hall.[266] In 1938 she took up residence in a summer studio at Green Acre[267] and ran a program on art for the school.[268] There is a break in visible activity in 1940 and her father died April 24, 1941,[257] but she was again involved at Green Acre in July 1941 for a pageant.[269] After another year gap in activity she was on the centenary committee of 1943–44,[270] to commemorate the founding of the religion in 1844. In Portsmouth she offered a program at the Baháʼí library about her pilgrimage,[271] as well as at Green Acre.[272] She was on the maintenance committee for Green Acre across 1945–1947.[273] In Teaneck, New Jersey she offered a program for youth on dramatizations of the religion,[274] and her poem "The Song of Tahirih" was published in July 1947 World Order magazine.[275] In 1948 she was listed as the corresponding secretary of the Baháʼí group of Brookline, Massachusetts,[276] and offered a program in nearby Hamilton, Massachusetts.[277] Her mother died in 1949.[278] In 1950 she published a play "The desert tent: An Easter play in three episodes".[279]

In 1953 Bowditch was noted helping a Portsmouth community pageant,[280] and her family moved to Peterborough, New Hampshire, in the south of the state in 1959,[281] attended the 1963 Baháʼí World Congress with her husband and a granddaughter,[257] and in 1965 Bowditch is pictured on the first local Spiritual Assembly of Brookline, the local administrative organization of the religion.[282]

1972 she was noted for a Portsmouth Friends of the Library,[283] spoke at Meriden Connecticut on her memory of meeting ʻAbdu'l-Bahá,[284] and aided in costumes for play at Keene State College.[285]

She died May 1, 1979[257] and a posthumously published memoir, "The Artist's Daughter: Memoirs 1890–1979" was printed with the aide of her grandchildren.[257]

Regular hosts at Green Acre were Bahiyyih Randall and Harry Ford along with Mildred Mottahedeh in the 1940s.[10] Louis Gregory and Curtis Kelsey led a race unity workshop at Green Acre in August 1940[202][207]: p.278  and there was a focus on religion and science in a series of talks as well as individual talks.[286] During the tenure of Randall and Ford, Randall gathered historical materials both at Green Acre and from the Baháʼí national archives,[11]: p.14  the fourth floor of the Inn was renovated, and a new separate building, Baha'i Hall, was built.[11]: p.166 

In 1941 a trusteeship was created for Green Acre for the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada – its members were Allen McDaniel, Dorothy Baker, Roy Wilhelm, Horace Holley, Siegfried Scholpflocher, Leroy Ioas, Amelia Collings, Louis Gregory, Harlan Ober.[287] The Baháʼís officially announced the new name of the institution as the "Green Acre Baháʼí School".[10] The extended program of events carried on with wide attendance.[288] That year the site also began to host annual race unity conferences – that year having talks by Louis Gregory, Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and The Crisis, Matthew Bullock and Dorothy Baker.[207]: p.278 

In July 1942 Helen Archambault, William Kenneth and Robert Christian, Harry Ford, Ober and Cobb all gave talks at the summer session of Green Acre,[289] followed by a study class series by William Kenneth, Roberta Christian, and Ober.[290] Paul Haney married Helen Margery Wheeler there in 1942.[190] Shook's talk at Green Acre in July 1942 was profiled in the local paper,[291] and his presentations went on into September along with other events.[292] A number of prominent Baháʼís were in a Green Acre "Race Amity" conference in August 1942 – Dorothy Beecher Baker, Matthew Bollock, Ali Kuli Khan, Mabel Jenkins, Harlan Ober, Lorna Tasker, Louis Gregory, Doris McKay, Hillery Thorne, and Harriet Kelsey were all on the speaker list.[293] Among the other presenters were Phyllis Weatley and James Weldon Johnson.[207]: p.278  Ober continued at a general session at Green Acre a few days later.[294][295]

1943 edit

1943 was a year of race riots around the United States – the Beaumont race riot of 1943 of mid-June, the Detroit race riot of 1943 of late June, and the Harlem riot of 1943 of early August. Profiles of the religion's teaching of race unity had been highlighted by Alice Simmons Cox in The New York Age in the winter-spring[296] Dorothy Beecher Baker had a talk series including the subject of race unity in Rochester, NY, in late July[297] just before the Green Acre summer session and Mrs. Charles Witt talk on race unity over in Los Angeles, CA.[298] Ober was one among several present in an August series of talks at Green Acre – Mary Coristine, Philip Sprague, Lorraine Welsh, Lorna Tasker, Mary McClendon, Gertrude Atkinson, Louis Gregory, Horace Holley, Mrs. Florence Breed Khan, Hesmat Ala'i, Maud Mickle, and Mabel Jenkins all contributed on topics of equality of women and unity of humanity,[299] with the largest attendance of the season,[207]: p.278  partly from a nationwide call for the prominence of the topic,[207]: p.284  while the late August session also featured a review of the life of Muhammad.[300] The National assembly had set in motion a series of efforts in anticipation of the Centenary of the Declaration of the Báb,[301] saying the situation of race in the country "demands our devoted attention and endeavor throughout September and October, the fundamental teaching of the Faith, its most challenging principle, its swift healing antidote for the ills of a divided world." There was a specific attempt to reach the public, and on the subject of the oneness of mankind – race unity. The conference achieved some newspaper publicity,[302] and there was indeed a breadth of many talks by Baháʼís into November.[303] Among them were Dorothy Beecher Baker,[304] Louis G. Gregory,[305] and Alain Locke.[306]

The next summer, of 1944, had its own crisis. There was a series by managed by Ober and Nancy Bowditch in early July,[307] but pleas came from the National Assembly that Tera Cowart-Smith drop her plans in Atlanta and arrange to be at Green Acre to take over the management of the summer session.[308]p. 61–7 She reports great difficulty in deciding to go in the face of having to drop her clients, and in getting there, and many privations figuring out how to feed the guests. Mildred Mottahedeh was there assisting her through the period and 75 guests came. The public news covered her at Green Acre.[309][310] The race unity meeting had Genevieve Coy, Mildred Mottahedeh, Ober, Gregory, Lydia Martin and Sarah Martin (Pereira), and Matthew Bullock (who himself recalled the bitter disappointment of integrated service in the military and returning home to a segregated society.)[207]: pp.278–90 [311] The national assembly advertised for managers for Green Acre in November.[312] Ober also gave a later series at the Portsmouth Baháʼí Center late in the year and into spring 1945.[313][314] Sessions of near one hundred people ran in the 1945 race unity meeting and in 1946 a week long study was done on "The Negro in American Life".[207]: p.279  Gregory called it "the most wonderful season in its history, save that of 1912 when His Holidness ʻAbdu'l-Bahá Himself taught here."[207]: p.299 

Winter season classes were begun in 1947 by Emanuel (Manny) and Janet Reimer in their cottage "on campus" which grew to be housed in the main "Fellowship Hall".[10] Though talks were held in June 1949,[315] during the rest of 1949 and 1950 the executive decision was made by then head of the religion Shoghi Effendi to close Green Acre School for two years of "austerity" while the final push to finish the Baháʼí House of Worship was under way. A program for World Religion Day did take place in January 1950 over in Portsmouth with Baháʼí support and others[316] Shook was elected chair of the Eliot assembly in 1950 – the other members were Lucien McComb, Mrs McComb, Thorton Pearsall, Vincent Minutti, Mrs Delbert Cress, Mrs Dudley Blakely, Mrs John Marlow, Emaniel Reimer[317] – and other smaller events took place.[318]

1950s edit

Green Acre Baháʼí School was reopened in 1951[10] thanks in part to youth groups working on getting the facility ready.[11]: p.114 

Louis G. Gregory edit

Main article: Louis G. Gregory
 
Louis G. and Louisa Mathew Gregory

Louis G. Gregory went to Green Acre in the fall of 1911 for the first time – it was just a few months after his return from Baháʼí pilgrimage.[207]: p.49 [319] In 1912 he married Louise Matthews. He was next known at Green Acre in 1917 when he gave a talk "Prophetic proofs of the Baha'i Revelation."[176] In 1920 the Gregories were able to spend some ten days together after many months each traveling in different directions for the religion amidst a time where inter-racial marriage was socially troubled and he was "so onerous and irritable, so unlike himself" that his wife was in despair over his condition - nevertheless he set out on the longest of his teaching tours the following year.[207]: pp.91, 117  From then on most summers they were able to be in the environment at Eliot and it became their "home base".[207]: p.185  In 1922, while a member of the National Spiritual Assembly, he chaired the summer program and gave two talks at Green Acre – "Prayer and Praise", and "The Holy Mariner".[192][207]: p.122  They were there in 1923.[207]: p.123  He attended the organizing 1925 national convention held at Green Acre.[11]: p.93  The 1926 summer program at Green Acre had Gregory as co-director with Albert Vail and Howard MacNutt.[207]: p.160  They were there in June 1929 before the Green Acre program started.[207]: p.186  Like many leaders in the religion, the Gregories began to serve overseas for extended periods in the 1930s – Louise in Europe at first and then the both of them in Haiti.[207]: p.246  The Gregorys returned to Green Acre in 1938 but wintered in Cambridge.[207]: p.254 

In 1940 the Gregories bought a different summer cottage in Eliot,[320] and a winter apartment in Portsmouth.[321] A small community held Nineteen Day Feast in September 1941.[322] Gregory served several years on the Green Acre school committee itself in the 1940s[207]: p.297  and loved to work with children's classes.[207]: pp.298–9  From 1946, now that Louise was over eighty years old and less independent, Gregory stayed more at home than traveling the country as he had done for decades.[207]: p.305  Both his race and their inter-racial marriage seemed well accepted in Eliot. Friends often saw them on the porch or at events in Green Acre and their garden was doing well at home.[207]: p.305 

In December 1948 Gregory suffered a stroke a couple months after returning from a funeral for a friend[207]: p.306 [323] and between him and his wife, whose health also declined, began to stay closer to home. His recovery was more than the doctor predicted when a couple months later he had regained his hand-writing though slanted.[207]: pp.306–7  By the summer of 1949 he was again carrying on an active correspondence. In particular Gregory carried on correspondence with U.S. District Court Judge Julius Waties Waring and his wife in 1950–51 who was involved in Briggs v. Elliott even while Green Acre was closed for austerity.

Gregory died aged seventy-seven on July 30, 1951. He is buried at Eliot and just a few days later during the memorial service a telegram arrived stating he was appointed as one of the Hands of the Cause, the highest office open to individuals in the religion, by then head of the religion, Shoghi Effendi.[207]: p.310 

Other activities edit

Ober stayed home in the summer of 1951,[324] and officiated at the funeral of Louis G. Gregory,[325] which was followed up with a series of talks at Green Acre,[326] as well as other opportunities.[327][328][329] For a few years the public mentions of Ober are a couple funerals he oversaw,[330][331] but in 1956 he gave a series of talks.[332]

In 1952 the room ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's used while staying there was set aside for prayers and meditation.[10]

Legal cases began to question the roll of Green Acre as a religious institution and its status for tax reasons.[333] In 1954 the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine ruled that the Green Acre Baháʼí Institute was entitled to tax exemption as a charitable institution.[333][334] Horace Holley made public some material on the legal timeline of Green Acre in 1955 sharing information affecting its tax status.[168] Nathan Rutstein lived at Green Acre in the summer of 1955 with his new wife before getting into television production and appointed as an Auxiliary Board member for the religion.[335]

1960s - 1990s edit

In the 1960s, the first full-time staff of the school and the first year-round live-in caretaker were hired – Stuart Rhode and Emma Rice.[10] The first full-time property manager, Edwin Miller was hired in the 1970s.[10] Emma Rice, former Knight of Baháʼu'lláh for Sicily, became the resident caretaker of the Fellowship House.[11]: p.167  The tax status of Green Acre Baha'i Institute was contested in 1963 and the same court removed the tax exemption, based on a 1957 law limiting exemptions to institutions that primarily serve residents of Maine.[333] Richard Grover grew into the first full-time administrator of Green Acre in the 1980s.[10] The administration of Green Acre transferred to Ray Labelle around 1990 and then James and Jeannine Sacco in 1995–96.[10] Later, in 1997, the US Supreme Court declared the Maine law unconstitutional reverting the tax status of Green Acre.[333] Green Acre became recognized as "paradigmatic of a Baháʼí institution".[169]

A variety of individuals visited in the 1960 and into the 1970s in addition to regular presenters. The 1960 session included Firuz Kazemzadeh.[336] A Pennacook Indian, Gerard Morin aka Little Bishop, presented on local Indian culture in Green Acre in 1966.[337] Hand of the Cause Ali Akbar Furutan visited in 1969.[338] Hand of the Cause William Sears visited in 1978 with his wife Marguerite Reimer Sears as part of establishing the Reimer award for service to Green Acre.[11]: pp.116–7  Its first recipient was Emma Rice.

It was also during the 1960s that the first Baháʼí studies of the history of Sarah Farmer, Green Acre, and Monsalvat took place by Douglas Martin and H.T.D. Rost.[10] This was extended in the 1980s with occasional lectures entitled Farmer Family Memorial Lectures began,[11]: p.117  while Kenneth Walter published a polemical compilation of the rise and fall of transcendentalism at Green Acre in 1980 recalling the vehemence against the Baháʼís.[61] The Association for Baháʼí Studies held its first regional conference at Green Acre in 1983.[10] Sessions began to be held preserving Green Acre history and in 1986 the National Spiritual Assembly made the restoration of the Sarah Farmer Inn a goal for the Baháʼís of the Northeast.[10] In 1989 local chapters of peace groups offered programs at Green Acre, and centennial observances began starting with its inception in 1890.[11]: p.118  Restoration of the Sarah Farmer Inn continued for many years as funds became available and was finally completed in summer of 1994,[10] the centennial of the first Greenacre Meeting entitled "100 Years for Peace" commemorated with a post office cancelation and some 1500 guests (greater than the population of the town of Eliot when the site opened.)[11]: pp.118–9  Some 300 attended program of the Vedanta Society to commemorate Swami Vivekenda's presence in 1894 with a plaque along with publishing a collection of poetry, Voice of Lovers.[11]: p.119  Baháʼí academies and training sessions by the Baháʼí International Community office at the United Nations were held in the 1990s.

In 1998 the institution of the "Black Men's gathering" began annual meetings at Green Acre Baháʼí School after being hosted at Louis Gregory Baháʼí Institute and other places until it ended in 2011. Each year the group walked in procession to Gregory's gravesite.[11]: pp.119, 169 [339]: 4:41m  Green Acre Baháʼí School has also been home to the annual "Turning 15 Academy"/"Badasht Prep Academy"/"Badasht Academy" (variously named and often named after the Conference of Badasht) since the summer of 1999 as a week-long intensive study of Baháʼí history and religious practices.[11]: p.119 [340]

Since 2000 edit

 
Sarah Farmer Inn at Green Acre, November 2017

In 2000 Ruhi Institute courses were offered.[11]: p.120  Observances memorializing the deaths in 9-11 were held in cooperation with the Eliot public library and the local congregational church. In 2002 the old Baha'i Hall was taken down and replaced the same year with the Curtis and Harriet Kelsey Center[11]: p.120  which featured an auditorium for 220 seats and seven classrooms.[341] Noted scholar on Khalil Gibran, Suheil Bushrui[342] spoke at Green Acre Baháʼí school in 2003 giving a two-day course on ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's teachings on peace.[343] Renovations and expansion at Green Acre as part of an investment across all the Baháʼí schools was initiated in 2000 under the name "Kingdom Project" and finished in 2005.[344]

In 2004 a commemorative peace garden was established at the School and the property of the home of the Gregory's was added to the holdings of Green Acre Baháʼí School in Eliot.[11]: p.121 

In 2005 the centenary of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty and Farmer's involvement was established in a Sarah Farmer Peace Award by the Baháʼís of Eliot and has been given out annually[345][346] and Ryozo Kato, Japanese Ambassador to the United States in 2005, made an official visit to Green Acre commemorating the treaty.[11]: p.122  The events were held included re-enactments for Theodore Roosevelt, Ida B. Wells, Thomas Edison, William Jennings Bryan, and Fred Harvey as well as Sarah Farmer herself, along with contributions from speakers, writers and artists were held at Green Acre Baháʼí School itself as well as a meeting of the Association of Baháʼí Studies of the US and Canada.[11]: pp.123–9 

The School also continued to network with the area chapter of the NAACP.[347]

In 2007 sessions included the sitting Chair for Peace from the University of Maryland, Dr. John Grayzel, gave a class with the chair of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty Anniversary Committee.[11]: p.132 

The Eliot 2010 bicentenary was celebrated and there was a play at Green Acre as part of it.[348] Green Acre was also reviewed in line with other movements of the turn of the 20th century in a documentary about peace activism related to the Treaty of Portsmouth[349] and was premiered on the campus in 2012 during the centenary of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's visit.[350] Four more buildings were dedicated after a four-year construction project: the Harry Randall Guest House, Louise and Louisa Gregory Cottage, Mildred and Rafi Mottahedeh Cottage, and Emma Rice Cottage replacing four of the older cottages on the property.[351] In Washington D. C. a commemorative tour recalled Stanwood Cobb's association with Green Acre and Eliot.[352]

Don Tennant appreciated living in the atmosphere of honesty at Green Acre while he wrote Spy the lie, published in 2012, while his wife worked at Green Acre.[353][354]

Further reading edit

  • Amador, Seren Gates (May 2019). Within the heart of every human being: Sarah Farmer, her life, her work, and her search for universal truth" (PhD). Syracuse University, Department of Religion.
  • Leigh Eric Schmidt (6 August 2012). Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0-520-95411-3.
  • Anne Gordon Perry; Rosanne Adams-Junkins; Robert Atkinson; Richard Grover; Diane Iverson; Robert H Stockman; Burton W.F. Trafton Jr. (2012) [1991]. Green Acre on the Piscataqua: A Centennial Celebration (3rd ed.). Baha'i Publishing Trust. ISBN 978-0-87743-364-4.
  • Margaret A. Elliott (2005). Eliot. Arcadia Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7385-3771-9.
  • Catherine Tumber (1 January 2002). "Cultural Experimentation in the New Age". American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality: Searching for the Higher Self, 1875–1915. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-8476-9749-6.
  • Robert H. Stockman (2002). Thornton Chase: First American Baháʼí. Baháʼí Pub. Trust. ISBN 978-0-87743-282-1.

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January 01, 1970
green, acre, baháʼí, school, 1114639, 7944556, 1114639, 7944556, green, acre, eliot, maine, conference, facility, eliot, maine, united, states, three, leading, institutions, owned, national, spiritual, assembly, baháʼís, united, states, name, site, various, ve. 43 06 41 27 N 70 47 40 04 W 43 1114639 N 70 7944556 W 43 1114639 70 7944556 The Inn at Green Acre in Eliot Maine Green Acre Bahaʼi School is a conference facility in Eliot Maine in the United States and is one of three leading institutions owned by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahaʼis of the United States The name of the site has had various versions of Green Acre since before its founding in 1894 by Sarah Jane Farmer It had a prolonged process of progress and challenge while run by Farmer until about 1913 when she was indisposed after converting to the Bahaʼi Faith in 1900 ʻAbdu l Baha then head of the religion visited there during his travels in the West in 1912 Farmer died in 1916 and thereafter it had evolved into the quintessential Bahaʼi school directly inspiring Louhelen Bahaʼi School and Bosch Bahaʼi School the other two of the three schools owned by the national assembly and today serves as a leading institution of the religion in America It hosted diverse programs of study presenters and been a focus for dealing with racism in the United States through being a significant venue for Race Amity Conventions later renamed Race Unity Day meetings and less than a century later the Black Men s Gatherings and further events Contents 1 Origin 1 1 The Farmers 1 2 Sarah Farmer s inauguration of Greenacre 1 3 1895 to 1899 2 Transformation 2 1 1900 1906 2 1 1 Farmer s encounter with the Bahaʼi Faith 2 1 2 Back at Greenacre 2 1 3 Year of Peace 2 2 1907 1912 2 2 1 ʻAbdu l Baha in the area 3 Bahaʼi management 3 1 1913 1916 3 2 Green Acre and contributing to the national leadership 3 3 Programs and model 3 4 Nancy Bowditch 3 5 1943 3 6 1950s 3 6 1 Louis G Gregory 3 6 2 Other activities 3 7 1960s 1990s 3 8 Since 2000 4 Further reading 5 References 6 External linksOrigin editThe Piscataqua River by which Green Acre Bahaʼi school stands was named from Abenaki Native Americans of the Wabanaki Confederacy describing where a river separates into several parts a place where boats and canoes ascending the river together from its mouth were compelled to separate according to their several destinations 1 The town of Eliot was founded 1810 from Kittery Maine which itself was founded in the 1600s 2 By the mid 1800s the area served as a shipyard including launching the USS Nightingale in 1851 3 4 5 At the time of the founding of the school there were some 1 400 people in Eliot and the town has grown in recent years to near 7 000 today 6 The Farmers edit Sarah Farmer s mother Hannah Tobey Farmer 1823 1891 was raised Methodist 7 p 191 Her father Moses Gerrish Farmer 1820 1893 a Dartmouth graduate in 1844 8 had success in the new field of electrical engineering and telegraph work and was a heartfelt Christian 7 p 192 though he has also been called a Spiritualist 8 and Transcendentalist 6 Moses and Hannah married in 1844 9 and Sarah was born 1847 7 p 186 It is said that the Farmer s home before they lived in Eliot was part of the Underground Railroad 10 nbsp Hannah Tobey Farmer nbsp Moses G Farmer It is unclear when the land in Eliot came to be owned by the Farmer family However they lived in a variety of places in New England until after 1880 when the family moved to Eliot and Moses retired 9 The home they built in Eliot was called Bittersweat or Bittersweet in the Fields 11 pp 7 163 Hannah established a memorial non segregated service called Rosemary Cottage as a retreat for unwed or poor mothers and working women 11 p 7 in Eliot where for a donation of 7 181 in 2014 12 families would have a two week vacation up to 40 at a time in 1888 13 In 1887 Sarah re animated the Eliot Library Association and set a number of meetings with speakers while also serving as secretary and helping build a list of patrons of the library of some 700 people 11 p8 Singer Emma Cecilia Thursby recalled her first visit to what was called Greenacre was in 1889 14 Greenacre is and was situated on a bluff overlooking the river which is a mile wide 15 In 1890 a group of investors signed a contract to set up a hotel initially called the Eliot Hotel or Inn at the site 11 p 8 In 1891 there were paying customers staying at the Inn 16 Farmer had an originating idea about a spiritual theme for the development of the property in June 1892 7 pp 311 2 and then journeyed with her father to the Chicago Columbian Exposition in late 1892 where she met with Swedenborgian Charles C Bonney the visionary behind the World s Parliament of Religions 7 p 192 and gained encouragement for her vision for a center of learning for spiritual teachers 7 pp 17 192 an idea blessed by family friends Arthur Wesley Down and John Greenleaf Whittier 7 p 80 Her father died that spring 1893 and she had to leave before the Parliament took place 17 She took a brief trip to Norway with Sara Chapman Bull in her grief 11 p 12 and she made it back to the Parliament only in October 1893 after it was over 7 p 192 Farmer made what she recorded in her diary as a solemn vow to building the school for spiritual teachers on 4 February 1894 7 p 312 However by about 1894 the hotel was called a failure and was boarded up when Farmer approached the investors with the plan to use Greenacre as a place to host lectures on religion 18 Farmer proposed to her investors to use the closed Inn 18 By 1897 it was capable of housing 75 or more guests and had a number of cottages around the property with a grassy plain that sometimes hosted a tent camp 15 Sarah Farmer s inauguration of Greenacre editFollowing the enthusiasm of the Parliament Farmer set up the beginnings of using the Greenacre Inn as a summer center of cross religion gatherings and cultural development She had success attracting support from Bostonian businessmen wives of businessmen and politicians most especially Phoebe Hearst 7 p 193 The work was inaugurated in 1894 7 pp 27 193 4 19 with her words The spirit of criticism will be absolutely laid down if it comes in it will be gently laid aside each will contribute his best and listen sympathetically to those who present different ideals The comparison will be made by the audience not by the teachers 7 pp 193 4 The early collection of religious interests was wide Farmer participated with Spiritualist trance speakers who appeared to channel her father so convincingly the family dog responded a fact William James took note of 7 p 189 nbsp Vivekananda at Greenacre August 1894 One of the first such promulgators of spiritual insight there was Carl H A Bjerregaard where he would frequent through at least 1896 7 pp 25 30 Swami Vivekananda a prominent Hindu monk serving in interfaith awareness efforts spent nearly two months there in the summer of 1894 20 21 22 23 His words were printed in the short lived The Greenacre Voice established with the school and conference center 24 running at least to 1897 7 p 307 A review appeared in the local Boston Evening Transcript 25 nbsp Swami Vivekananda and Sarah Farmer at Green Acre August 1894 A short list of presentations was published in the newspaper even as far away as Chicago also featured academic scholars as well as priests presenting on religions 26 Professor Ernst Fenollosa Boston Museum of Fine Arts The Relation of Religion to Art Rev Dr Edward Everett Hale Sociology Rev Dr William Alger Universal Religion Edwin Meade Immanuel Kant Professor Thomas C Wild Union for Practical Progress Frank B Sanborn The Humane treatment of Mental and Spiritual Aberrations Margaret B Peeke from Sandusky Ohio The Soul in its search after God and Abby Morton Diaz The Work of humanity for humanity were among the well known presenters but the distinction of the summer school was of lecturers who were younger 7 p 197 and less well known than those of the earlier Concord School of Philosophy maintained by the Transcendentalists previously which closed about 1887 27 and less about philosophy than of comparative study initially 7 p 197 The sessions were positively reviewed 28 Sanborn would soon be among the leaders operating at Greenacre Professor Lewis G Janes was there giving talks on Darwin and Spencer Social Tendencies under Evolution and Life as a Fine Art 29 and would also soon take a leading role in developments as well There was also something of a windstorm that year 30 The school had a winter session in Cambridge with several repeat appearances hosted by Sara Chapman Bull 31 Indeed these winter sessions continued some years and came to be called the Cambridge Conferences directed by Janes 32 1895 to 1899 edit An 1895 address book of Farmer s revealed she had contact information on a number of leaders of thought and religion in America 7 pp 187 8 That summer among those that met at the conference center were evolutionists 33 and Farmer invited Lewis Janes to assist with the program development 34 Janes was a student of Herbert Spencer 32 An engine inventor also presented 35 The conference grew to the point the Inn itself was too small and a tent camp arose as well as buildings to provide shelter from rain or sun were added 7 p 26 24 In 1896 Sanborn organized an Emerson Day after Ralph Waldo Emerson and it continued for more than a decade 7 p 199 That year a formal reunion of the Concord School of Philosophy was also held In addition to the talks on art actual musical concerts painters sculptors poets began to make appearances at Greenacre 7 pp 201 2 36 Strong calls for peace against war from the conference got printed in the Boston Evening Transcript 37 The Monsalvat School for the Comparative Study of Religion a progressive or liberal development seen against conservative religious experience was established formally in 1896 as an institution hosted at Greenacre and the first director was Lewis Janes 7 pp 195 6 38 Monsalvat was named after the sacred mountain in Wagner s Parsifal where the Holy Grail was kept 39 though it is most often spelled Montsalvat However Farmer and Janes differed often Janes wanted academic credentials among his speakers and a businesslike plan for the economic solvency of the work by charging everyone rather than trusting on contributions They had serious difficulty even agreeing on what they were talking about This difference of understanding could never have occurred between two men accustomed to business methods Janes wrote in 1899 7 p 196 Farmer framed the school as a place for encounter between religious leaders for a fuller realization of unity among religions and relied on generosity and enthusiasm to overcome the challenges of economy 7 p 197 Nevertheless the school and Greenacre continue to operate and was noted in newspapers 40 nbsp Sarah J Farmer published in the New York Times Sept 19 1897 nbsp Srimath Anagarika Dharmapala in his middle thirties The August 1897 season opened with the new lecture hall the Eirenion place of peace 11 p 16 and Sarah Farmer and Greenacre made the New York Times 15 A book was circulated in Japan about it too 11 p 16 Prominent Buddhist monk Anagarika Dharmapala stayed at Greenacre where he worked on practices himself and offered classes and talks on specific meditational disciplines as well as quotes on the teachings of the Buddha 7 pp 168 170 200 41 He was enthusiastic about the kind of interfaith coming together process of Greenacre Unitarian Alfred W Martin closed the 1897 season with a talk Universal Religion and the World s Religions the theme of which became his life s work 7 pp 136 7 Electrical engineers met at the conference center at least in 1897 42 as the fiftieth anniversary of the invention of the electric tolley car 11 p 16 The 1898 session on the Monsalvat school listed a variety of people including Janes himself on Relation of Science to Religious Thought Swami Abhedananda on Vedanta philosophy and Religions of India Hebrew Prophets by Prof Nathaniel Schmidt Literature Ethics and Philosophy of the Talmud by Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf Islam and the Koran by Emil Nabokoff Philosophy and Religions of the Jains by Vichand Raghavji Gandhi and others 43 nbsp Franklin Benjamin Sanborn in 1900 A diary of Charles W Chesnutt noted he was a replacement speaker for Walter Hines Page for a talk in 1899 on the condition of African Americans in the South and commented on witnessing a diversity of clothing representing cultures of the world 44 Farmer s farewell address for the 1899 season was printed in the Boston Evening Transcript and contained warm thoughts of the development of the work and its ongoing goals 45 A beatific booklet Greenacre on the Piscataqua of some 22 pages with a section written in August 1899 and another in September 1900 was published 4 Bahaʼis have identified a quote from the religion in the 1899 program and speculate Farmer had heard of the religion 11 pp 27 9 However in Farmer s life and the structure of Greenacre there was crisis According to scholar Eric Leigh Schmidt Sanborn was working for a creation of a new shrine for transcendentalism akin to reforming the Concord school centered on Emerson and used his coverage work of Greenacre in newspaper stories to frame that development while at the same time Janes drifted explicitly from Farmer s approach by charging people for the classes and insisting on academic credentials and approaches to understand the diversity of religions 7 pp 199 200 Janes disconnect from Farmer had reached the point of shutting down the Monsalvat school 46 There were also tensions between Sanborn and Janes and among other groups 47 There had been speculation on Farmer being bought out 48 creditors were nervous 49 and her business partners had thought to force Farmer to sell out 18 Transformation edit1900 1906 edit Farmer s encounter with the Bahaʼi Faith edit While her partners were seeking to meet with her Farmer was already aboard the SS Furst Bismarck out of New York as a guest of Maria P Wilson 50 trying to release herself of her worries in first week of January 1900 51 Wilson and Farmer ran into friends Josephine Locke and Elizabeth Knudson aboard ship and eventually learned they were on the way to see ʻAbdu l Baha who was leader of a new religion and had in their possession an early prayer book 50 Wilson was dubious but eventually the ladies changed their plans and went along They waited in Egypt 52 where there are pictures of her with Mirza Abu l Faḍl and scenes there 11 pp 28 32 before leaving for Haifa March 23 1900 11 p 29 A few years later her friend Mary Hanford Ford related some of what took place meeting ʻAbdu l Baha as a second hand account A few facts are detailed Farmer had met ʻAbdu l Baha and accepted the religion on one occasion and on another wanted to ask him a series of questions in the context of a review of her whole life but when she wrote it all down she left the notebook in the hurry of being called to come to him in the early morning She reported he answered the questions spontaneously and in the right order starting in such a way that the translator was confused because no question had been asked At the end of that interview she cried strange tears of ecstatic happiness and went to her room to recover the composure which had been shaken by these surprising and illuminating events 53 This list of questions is referred to in another briefer recollection 54 Anise Rideout had a similar record of the incident 50 Rideout reports that ʻAbdu l Baha wrote an inscription in Farmer s Bible dated March 26 For Maria Wilson s part she also joined the religion and was the first Bahaʼi to move to Boston After being in Haifa and Egypt the women also spent some time in Paris among a small group of Bahaʼis after the visit 50 55 and Rome 56 Back at Greenacre edit The Summer 1900 program went on without Farmer 57 though the Monsalvat school was suspended that year 24 Farmer returned to the United States in November 39 injured on arrival according to one account 54 There were also reports that the translator at the meeting had come to the United States with Farmer on the return voyage 54 She was noted back in Eliot in May 1901 58 An organizational meeting came together May 22 and dedicated a site on nearby Mount Monsalvat as Farmer called it to eventually host a school 59 Kate C Ives was among those present That Spring of 1901 she also met with Phoebe Hearst 55 who herself had been to see ʻAbdu l Baha a few years earlier and she too had adopted the religion Farmer was publicly linked with the religion in June 1901 60 Of the Bahaʼi Faith it was explained she has found the common faith in which all devout souls may unite and yet be free 60 At the time there were some 700 Bahaʼis in the United States 7 p 190 Amidst her conflict with Janes and newfound attachment to the Bahaʼi Faith she offered free classes in parallel even conflicting on time with Janes Monsalvat school classes 24 In 1901 the charge for the entire season of classes with Janes group was five dollars for the Monsalvat school 61 p 126 in inflation terms that would be 140 in 2014 12 Schmidt featured Farmer and Greenacre in a chapter Freedom and Self Surrender of a book Restless Souls The Making of American Spirituality published by the University of California Press in 2012 The struggle at the heart of liberal spirituality was over the firmness and fragility of religious identity in the modern world Was the point precisely the freedom of spiritual seeking Or was the real point to find a well marked path and to submit to the disciplines of a new religious authority in order to submerge the self in a larger relationship to God and community Farmer s eventual acceptance of the Baha i faith or the Persian Revelation discomfited her liberal universalistic friends many of whom preferred ongoing inquiry to actually finding one path to follow For Farmer the vision that she found in the Baha i faith of a new age of religious unity racial reconciliation gender equality and global peace was the fulfillment of Transcendentalism s reform impulses and progressivism s millennial dreams To her skeptical associates her turn to the Persian Revelation represented a betrayal of their deepest ideals as free ranging seekers whose vision of a cosmopolitan piety dimmed at the prospect of one movement serving as a singular focus for the universal religion 7 pp 184 6 Nevertheless Farmer focused the efforts of the institution on Bahaʼi themes In her words in 1902 My joy in the Persian Revelation is not that it reveals one of the streams flowing to the great Ocean of Life Light and Love but that it is a perfect mirror of that Ocean What in Green Acre was a vision and a hope becomes through it a blessed reality now It has illuminated for me every other expression of Truth which I had hitherto known and place my feet on a Rock from which they cannot be moved And it is the Manifestation of the Fatherhood Beha u llah ed as it was spelled in those days who had taught me to look away from even the Greatest and find within the One Powerful Mighty and Supreme who is to be the Redeemer of my life It is a Revelation of Unity such as I had never before found By means of its Light as shown the life of the Master Abbas Abdul Beha I have entered into a joy greater than any I have hitherto known Green Acre was established as a means to that end and in proportion as well lay aside all spirit of criticism of others and seek only to live the Unity we find shall we be able to help others to the same divine realization 7 p 206 nbsp Mirza Abu l Faḍl i Gulpaygani Farmer opened the 1901 session at Greenacre with an address The Revelation of Bahaʼu llah and its relation to the Monsalvat School while others gave related talks The New Jerusalem or the City We Want Lecture on the Persian Revelation and Utterances of Bahaʼu llah 62 Mirza Abu l Faḍl among the most scholarly trained Bahaʼis of the time was there 60 63 p 80 64 and his talk was Lectures on the Revelations of the Bab and Bahaʼu llah of Persia 62 Ali Kuli Khan to serve as his translator arrived in the United States in June 65 Abu l Faḍl had accompanied Anton Haddad the first Bahaʼi to live in the United States on his return trip to America They had been sent by ʻAbdu l Baha 64 The later well known Bahaʼi Agnes Baldwin Alexander later appointed to a high office of the religion was also there 66 Esther Davis reports others were there that summer of 1901 she herself Raffii the translator at one of Farmer s meetings with ʻAbdu l Baha and Mother Beecher Ellen Tuller Beecher 54 Mary Hanford Ford was there giving one of her talks on literature 62 and it was at these classes with Abu l Faḍl it is considered she joined the religion 63 67 Out of this the community of Bahaʼis began to form in Boston Farmer and ʻAbdu l Baha began an active exchange of letters some twenty plus of his which were gathered and printed initially in 1909 and then the third edition in 1919 11 p 38 68 Nevertheless Farmer did not embark on a heavy handed approach to the presence of the religion and made various compromises to limit its mention and presence 7 p 207 and this fits the Bahaʼi teaching about not proselytizing 69 Her problems did not go away though Janes suddenly died in the fall of 1901 7 p 196 A memorial was held at Greenacre September 6 32 Fillmore Moore the director of the Comparative Religion school after Janes continued the criticism 7 p 210 Others sided with Janes views including Sanborn and investor Sara Chapman Bull 24 Meanwhile a number of eastern teachers presenting their own religions beyond those of the Bahaʼis themselves began to appear officially on the programs of Monsalvat School beyond those of academically interested non believers Muslim Shehadi Abd Allah Shehadi in 1901 70 and later lived in Providence RI and had a park named after him 71 Buddhist Sister Sanghamitta before she left for India as a new convert 72 B S Kimura of Japan in 1902 Dharmpala M Barukatulah Baha Premanand in 1904 and C Jinaradadaen in 1905 73 Fadl and Khan were profiled along with a review of the religion in 1903 74 Ralph Waldo Trine wrote a book while at Greenacre 7 p 153 and published it in 1903 75 Additionally music concerts became more common one of the first was directed by early Bahaʼi Edward Kinney 76 Myron H Phelps as part of the transition of the Monsalvat School in his position as director in 1904 and 5 73 gave a talk on the religion at the 1904 conference following his 1903 book though it was later judged to be full of inaccuracies by the Bahaʼis 77 78 Articles based on the work were printed in various journals some noting Greenacre as well 79 In the face of the changing realms of support Phoebe Hearst was particularly stabilizing for Farmer in 1902 followed by Helen E Cole in 1906 24 80 Another factor in the progress of Greenacre was that steamer boat service from Portsmouth ran regularly in 1895 11 p 16 and the arrival of electric train service in Eliot near the hotel in 1902 81 Finally in 1902 Farmer initiated a voluntary board a Fellowship a sustaining body to help carry forward the Green Acre Conferences of which Sarah J Farmer is the director 82 Amidst this Farmer s personal home burned to the ground in 1904 10 and Randolph Bolles whose sister and niece were well known Bahaʼis took up residence living there until he died in 1939 83 nbsp nbsp Boston nbsp Green Acre nbsp Cambridgeclass notpageimage Green Acre and Boston Year of Peace edit In 1904 and 1905 Japanese diplomats visited Greenacre Yokoyama Taikan Okakura Kakuzō and Kentok Hori signing Farmer s autograph book with quotations and drawings for a special tea service and presentations 11 pp 44 6 As an institution Greenacre developed a brief set of branch associations including one in Washington D C in 1905 84 that began to host peace conferences 85 86 87 Farmer s connections and determination for peace was such that she was present at the signing of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty and indeed was the only woman on the naval base 11 pp 50 51 88 89 The event was remembered in more recent times 90 91 Diplomats from the treaty meeting attended functions at Greenacre 6 Some 300 attended including a few reporters from Japan though President Roosevelt and the Russian delegation did not 11 pp 47 9 There were several talks presented on peace including by Minister Takahira and Ali Kuli Khan who in a letter to his wife Florence Breed Khan called it the most important day in the history of Green Acre to that point At the same time a few became interested in the Bahaʼi Faith at Green Acre Harlan Ober and Alfred E Lunt were Bostonians who joined the religion in the summer of 1905 at Greenacre 63 pp 218 9 with Ober learning of the religion first through Lua Getsinger 92 and Alice Buckton 93 and then Lunt learned of the religion from Ober 94 nbsp Harlan Ober in 1907 nbsp Alfred E Lunt 1910 Ober had been in shipping interests 93 Ober and Lunt were leaders in Republican party politics on college campuses 95 96 in the era of the Fourth Party System also known as the Progressive Era About 1905 a formal board to supervise Greenacre called the Green Acre Fellowship superseded the earlier voluntary one and was arranged with five trustees Francis Keefe Aldred E Lunt Horatio Dresser Maria Wilson and Fillmore Moore two were Bahaʼi three not 97 In the summer of 1906 Stanwood Cobb learned of the religion from a series of articles in the Boston Transcript and went to Green Acre to learn more 7 98 pp 216 224 He conversed with Sarah Farmer 99 Thornton Chase the first occidental Bahaʼi was also there giving a series of talks 100 It was on that occasion that Cobb joined the religion 101 Others were also there giving talks 102 as well as a meeting of civil war veterans 103 Ponnambalam Ramanathan s talk that year was featured in the Boston Evening Transcript 104 Others also came to Greenacre In 1906 among others noted then Third assistant Secretary of State Huntington Wilson then retired General O O Howard and Ex Governor John Green Brady of Alaska all gave talks or hosted meetings 80 Marsden Hartley took a job as a handyman there and through his association he secured his first exhibition 105 and was friends with Ober and Lunt 106 1907 1912 edit In 1907 it was still possible to review things at Greenacre without mentioning Bahaʼis 107 May Wright Sewall spoke in 1907 at Green Acre 108 Newspaper coverage began to cover the division and resolution at Greenacre 73 and Farmer managed to keep the reputation of Greenacre high through 1907 7 p 210 Coverage of events occurred in Indianapolis 109 Bahaʼis sometimes objected that contradictory ideas were presented together while others sometimes objected there was too much Bahaʼi coverage 63 pp 217 8 ʻAbdu l Baha s advise to Farmer was to be more direct about the religion and less supportive of mouldered two thousand years old superstitions 7 pp 208 9 313 However in 1907 other events took hold when at the age of 60 Farmer fell off a train car in Boston was injured and never fully recovered 7 pp 190 210 1 She checked herself into McLean Hospital possibly with a severe injury to her back when it was a sanitorium 6 The 1908 season went on though with perhaps a reduced schedule 110 Fillmore Moore pressed her to surrender the right of trustee appointing and issued a pained statement in 1909 11 p 53 Writer Diane Iverson feels Farmer progressed in her hospitalization over a broken heart from the contention over Greenacre 6 Her care transferred to a private duty nurse in Portsmouth and from there when she became too much to handle into the care of early psychologist Dr Edward Cowles 6 Farmer s last public appearance at Green Acre was in 1909 7 p 210 The season was successful with singer Mary Lucas 111 who had joined the religion in 1905 112 and many others 113 That year the Green Acre Fellowship board voted to rebuild Farmer s residence on the site of her father s home at a cost of 5000 82 Farmer changed her will to bequeath Greenacre to the Bahaʼis in the event of her death via an agent of Phoebe Hearst 10 114 Her family involuntarily committed her to a mental institution 94 115 in July 1910 7 pp 190 210 1 At the same time the by laws of the institution allowed Farmer to appoint 3 of its 5 trustees fill vacancies and remove any of the trustees 82 All this was just before the centenary of the town of Eliot itself was celebrated including at Greenacre 116 Meanwhile early Canadian Bahaʼis the Magees began to be regular summer visitors 117 Among the several presenters and singers were a few Bahaʼis 118 as well as W E B Du Bois and Swami Paramananda 119 Ali Kuli Khan was appointed Iranian Charge D Affaires in Washington D C in 1910 120 A review of the history of Greenacre was published in 1911 in the local paper though there was more description of the alienness of Vivekananda in racist terms 121 The season had many speakers 122 ʻAbdu l Baha in the area edit Main article ʻAbdu l Baha s journeys to the West ʻAbdu l Baha then head of the religion embarked on travels to the West following release from imprisonment 123 While the regular season at Greenacre ran in July 124 he was there from 16 to 23 August 125 126 127 ʻAbdu l Baha referred to renaming it Green Acre vs Greenacre in relation to the Bahaʼi presence where the founder of the religion is buried referring to Acre Syria 7 p 207 Though Farmer herself referred to Green Acre since 1902 7 p 206 and publicly in 1903 7 p 195 and the formation documents of the Fellowship also used Green Acre 82 nevertheless Schmidt notes the change in use as a dividing line among the groups involved 7 p 185 Another name sometimes used is Green acre on the Piscataqua dating from 1897 128 and in modern times 10 Greenacre itself as a name for the site seems to predate the building of the hotel 11 pp 10 11 Some five 129 p 125 or eight hundred people were there to hear ʻAbdu l Baha s first talk 130 The talk was about ways of knowing the truth he disavowed individual approaches like pure reason simple authority individual inspiration etc but affirmed A statement presented to the mind accompanied by proofs which the senses can perceive to be correct which the faculty of reason can accept which is in accord with traditional authority and sanctioned by the promptings of the heart can be adjudged and relied upon as perfectly correct for it has been proved and tested by all the standards of judgment and found to be complete 130 Some repudiated their former beliefs in the sanctity in pure inspiration 129 p 125 ʻAbdu l Baha then visited Farmer at her home 11 60 That evening ʻAbdu l Baha addressed the audience at the Eirenion and he wrote a prayer for Farmer 11 pp 60 1 He was in the program speaking August 16 17 18 and 19 with Herbert Peckham speaking at most of the remaining schedule of the week Several of ʻAbdu l Baha s talks were gathered and published in The Promulgation of Universal Peace pages 253 275 11 p 63 He also visited the homes of other Bahaʼis Mason Remey Carrie and Edward Kinney At other talks members of the audience wept during his prayers or fainted He spoke to a girls club camp group by the river on August 19 129 p 127 In a letter he declared Farmer was not insane but experiencing religious exultation and not suffering from female hysteria as these things were viewed in the day 6 He met with individuals on other days at Green Acre or the home of Kate Ives the first woman member of the religion 131 offering advice and a listening ear to each 11 p 75 Fred Mortensen arrived August 20 129 p 126 132 133 Mortensen had been a criminal that fled arrest his lawyer was Bahaʼi Albert Hall of Minnesota from whom he learned of the religion Riding from Minneapolis to Cleveland he then went on to Green Acre all by way of Freighthopping Being introduced in a crowd he was embarrassed at his dirty appearance and then was told to sit down amid the company of people in fine dress and wait but soon ʻAbdu l Baha returned and began to speak closely with Mortensen His inquiry revealed how Mortensen had traveled nbsp nbsp nbsp Panorama of those at feast of ʻAbdu l Baha at Green Acre ʻAbdu l Baha is seated in the right most picture on the far left Mortensen had arrived on a day ʻAbdu l Baha had arranged as a feast 129 p 129 which was held on Mount Monsalvat and a large panomramic picture taken 11 pp 76 7 Mortensen is seated farthest on the left Farmer was also reportedly there led by the hand by ʻAbdu l Baha across the hill for a few minutes and had a long conversation then publicly pointed out the area would be host to the second Bahaʼi Temple for America as well as a university and then praised Farmer openly 11 pp 78 9 There followed a few more talks and farewell visits on topics like elimination of prejudice He was said to characterize the work as like that of the exhausted iron worker s apprentice whose master said to him Die but pump 11 p 81 ʻAbdu l Baha again visited Farmer and they went on a car tour including a stop to view the shipyard where the treaty had been signed 11 p 72 On the return trip she was not allowed to step off the car when it stopped at Green Acre 39 On the last day at Green Acre he met with individuals and then left stopping at Farmer s hospitalization again this time by carriage she wept at his feet on that occasion 7 pp 211 5 11 p 81 Bahaʼi management edit1913 1916 edit With news that Farmer was visible if only briefly her health was celebrated but the more urgent appeal by some was to warn people that Green Acre was threatened with dire calamity in June 1913 134 A meeting in June seemed to present a calm front and noted Farmer had previously appointed a guardian while she was indisposed 97 but the controversy continued in July 135 What had happened was that the terms of the trust Green Acre had specified authority resting on Farmer as long as she could direct the program 10 However in 1913 she could not and a re arrangement was undertaken by the board allowing a trustee to run the conference and maintain the program a step feared by the Sanborn and Fillmore affiliated groups 10 Sanborn published arguments over rights of access 82 Public rallies were echoed in print in Open Court and newspapers especially opposing a sense of the religious self surrender and the foreignness of the Bahaʼi Faith 7 pp 221 3 Nevertheless the board was expanded to nine members and William Randall shipping businessman 136 and Bahaʼi since before 1912 137 was appointed a trustee 11 p 83 and only one was not a Bahaʼi 7 p 211 Scary headlines in various places continued near and far 138 A program was carried on regardless 11 p 83 Kate Ives the first Bahaʼi of Boston wrote a letter to the editor inviting Portsmouth residents to a talk on the religion 139 Debates began about who was Farmer s guardian started in January 1914 with news there was another guardian of her affairs 140 But Farmer then had been declared sane in February 141 though the matter was raised again in March when Farmer s family sought to have her guardian appointed by them 142 Amidst partisan charges in the newspaper the doctor agreed Farmer was sane and competent to run her own affairs in June 143 Meanwhile in May 1914 Alfred E Lunt was elect to the national leadership of the religion 144 along with William Randall 145 The controversy at Green Acre grew more tense In July Farmer s mental condition was challenged with complaints and support statements all brought into court again as well as the rightful jurisdiction of two guardians of Farmer raised to superior courts 146 The July 1914 program at Green Acre went on it included a talk by later Bahaʼi Howard Colby Ives which was printed in the newspaper 147 as well as Alice Breed Alfred E Lunt and others 148 while others gave protesting talks from the street 7 pp 209 10 The Fellowship board of Green Acre had argued over money ultimately in court which was settled but the propriety of the expanded elected board was affirmed and required by law amendments to be not just by the trustees but by the whole group of investors 149 Early Canadian Bahaʼi Hariet Magee died at Green Acre in January 1915 117 Early in 1915 Randall oversaw the electrification of the Inn and driveway 11 p 165 Following the Bahaʼi participation at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in spring 1915 150 Lunt again served on the national board of Bahaʼis in the United States 151 this time as president 152 with Ober as secretary 153 Bahaʼis then began to buy several neighboring properties to Green Acre 11 p 86 Still Farmer was not released from hospitalization despite several rounds of judging her sane and fit to mind her own affairs and she had been treated with drugs and electroshock therapy 6 Now Bahaʼis began to plan for Farmer s release primarily William Randall Urbain Ledoux and Montford Mills 7 24 94 pp 211 2 154 and tried various approaches Ultimately they gathered a chief of police and a judge to accompany a court order with some intercepting the doctor physically and others carried Farmer to a waiting car to effect her freedom 154 155 156 A cousin of Farmer Helen Green also participated and recorded her testimony retained in the Bahaʼi national archives 11 p 86 Randall and Ober and others were visible at Green Acre a week later 157 Farmer managed to have her next birthday in comparative freedom quietly 158 ʻAbdu l Baha praised the work freeing Farmer 159 There was a session that summer at Green Acre 160 The case was appealed questioning jurisdiction in the argument over guardians in late 1915 161 162 The courts settled the case over guardianship against Sanborn s group in 1916 163 Meanwhile the donation of Helen Cole in 1902 was set for building what became called the Fellowship House constructed in the middle 1916 11 pp 108 165 Farmer was interviewed in the Boston Post in August during which the reporter had an experience he couldn t explain though there also several typos in the article and mis labeling 164 and Farmer then died in November 165 while walking in her family cemetery 6 There was a guard to protect her body lest it be taken 166 Sanborn called for an official inquiry of her death 163 The eulogy was read by Kate Ives and attending were Lunt Ober and Randall among others of Boston and the area Ober was noted an officer of Green Acre along with Lunt 167 With Farmer and her Will supporting the Bahaʼis the case ended The transcendentalists school were to put it mildly upset as were the supporters of the academic school 7 pp 209 10 313 4 24 61 The Bahaʼis inherited the 25k in debt too 168 Though at the time the newspaper coverage was dismissive over her work 6 modern coverage noted She anticipated the peace movement women s liberation and the New Age culture 6 Farmer s contribution was considered a singularly important to the development of Bahaʼi schools 169 Posthumously Shoghi Effendi later head of the religion appointed her as one of the Disciples of ʻAbdu l Baha 11 p 88 Bahaʼis noted her individual service as raising a status of organization vs institutionalization setting a place for the rise of some of Americas most active supporters of the religion and the very nature of that place However liberal religious idealization noticed that a democratic system had awarded Green Acre to sectarian view 170 It is true that before 1900 there were about a half dozen Bahaʼis in New England and that most of the growth of the religion in the region is attributed to the work done at Green Acre 63 pp 142 7 There is no record of a summer session in 1916 Ober wrote a letter to the editor about the religion and Green Acre earlier in August 171 Green Acre and contributing to the national leadership edit Further information Bahaʼi administration The 1917 Spring national convention of Bahaʼis with meetings held at Green Acre 151 172 and Boston 173 In 1917 William Randall was again elected to the national board of the religion and that year he was elected as president of the board 174 and Harlan Ober was elected to the board as well 175 Among the speakers on the summer schedule at Green Acre in 1917 were Horace Holley Randall Albert R Vail Louis G Gregory Eshteal Ebn Kalanter Lunt and Albert Hall 176 Randall spoke at Green Acre on The mission of Green Acre and another Talks of ʻAbdu l Baha as well as others by Frederick Strong on several topics as well as Edward Getsinger 177 The military discussed taking over the Green Acre property for its workmen in 1918 178 Randall was again elected to the national board of the religion this time as treasurer in 1918 179 Though the Inn did not open there was still a summer session with James F Morton Jr and a national Esperanto conference being held 180 Martha Root attended 11 p 85 And Mr and Mrs Ober Lunt and May Maxwell were noted in the services for the funeral program for a close friend of Farmer who died 181 Randall along with Juliet Thompson May Maxwell and Albert Vail debated the position of Green Acre on whether to raise the Peace Flag and ultimately decided it should be raised Prayers were said at Green Acre to end World War I 11 p 91 Randall was on Bahaʼi pilgrimage after the war in 1919 and ʻAbdu l Baha encouraged him to continue the work of Farmer at Green Acre 11 p 91 Randall served as the administrator of Green Acre from 1919 to 1929 when he died Harlan Ober was at the 1919 national convention of Bahaʼis was held in New York 182 The 1919 convention was a major event in the religion because it was also the place the Tablets of the Divine Plan of ʻAbdu l Baha were published Traveling teacher of the religion Fadil Mazandarani gave several talks at Green Acre in 1920 183 184 Randall was elected to the national board again in 1920 185 as treasurer 186 and addressed the convention 187 Randall was listed as the contact for announcing events and reserving rooms at Green Acre in 1920 by Albert Vail 188 Siegfried Schopflocher later to become another Hand of the Cause joined the religion at Green Acre in 1921 and helped improve the property 117 189 A Tea House and gift shop were established 11 p 92 Paul Haney and May Maxwell were also known at the facility in 1921 190 A major memorial for the death of ʻAbdu l Baha was held in 1922 191 Otherwise there is no known program in 1921 In 1922 a program was carried on by Louis Gregory Albert Watson Juliet Putnam George Latimer Mr and Mrs Aldo Randagger Mrs E Boye W H Randall 192 Randall was appointed to the supervisory board of the Bahaʼi periodical Star of the West in 1922 193 and contributed an article on Green Acre 194 In 1923 he was noted as chairman of the board of Green Acre 195 while continuing as treasurer 196 for the newly designated National Spiritual Assembly 197 A general renovation was begun in 1921 and completed in 1924 repairs painting and clearing away scrub growth etc was done 198 A program went on in 1923 with Fadil Mazandarani giving a talk 183 among the program that summer 10 199 The Eirenion burned down in 1924 200 right before the summer season of Green Acre was held with an international theme and presence and the first appearance of Glenn A Shook professor of Wheaton College Massachusetts 201 In 1925 there were a number of developments First the national convention was held at Green Acre 11 p 94 Famous African American leader Alain Locke a Bahaʼi since 1918 spoke at the 1925 convention 202 Second the national election was held under new rules fully endorsed by the head of the religion That year a local assembly was elected for the first time in Eliot 11 p 94 And lastly it was announced the administrative offices of the religion would be run from Green Acre 203 The members of the Eliot local assembly were Horace and Doris Holley Kate Ives Ivy Drew Edwards Marion Jack Colonel Henry and Mary Culver Ella Roberts and Phillip Marangella Lunt was noted on the board of trustees of Green Acre 204 Bahaʼi Mary Lucas who had performed at Green Acre several times held her professional school for singers there 205 While the history of persecution of Bahaʼis in Persia goes back some many years the first known newspaper mention in the area was in 1926 206 That summer the program was Green Acre Summer School of World Unity in August 207 p 159 But the National Assembly acquired direct authority of the Green Acre establishment 11 p 166 At the same time the national assembly began a Plans of Unified Action process that included a plan to centralize all Bahaʼi funding of projects through one national fund including Green Acre resulting in a learning process for the assembly and the community in maintaining priorities in a nationwide context a process that extended into the 1930s during the Great Depression 208 Education reformer Stanwood Cobb established Mast Cove Camp at Eliot that year too 209 Programs and model edit In 1927 Green Acre hosted its first Race Amity Convention in mid July 202 following an initiative push by Shoghi Effendi then head of the religion in April 207 p 175 210 The first convention had been held in Washington D C in 1921 followed by a lapse and this 1927 convention was arranged by a committee appointed by the US Bahaʼi National Spiritual Assembly Agnes Parsons Coralie F Cook Louis Gregory Zia Bagdadi Alain Locke Elizabeth G Hopper and Isabel Ives though Locke appears on the program he did not actually speak at the convention 202 Prominent contributors at the convention included Devere Allen of The World Tomorrow Samuel McComb of the Emmanuel Movement Rev William Stafford Jones and recent pilgrims Edwina Powell and S E J Oglesby 210 According to Louis Gregory he had to chair one of the sessions so that the affair would not be too one sided in the face of low participation despite a little under current of bad feeling among some Bahaʼis 207 p 212 This proved the first of a series of annual race amity conferences 207 p 181 However the event turned out to be so successful that money from the national budget to support the event was in fact covered by generous individuals caught up in the event and instead the allotment of about 400 207 p 186 alittle over 5400 in 2014 dollars 12 was returned to be contributed to the costs for building the American Bahaʼi Temple 207 p 184 There was a peace program the following August 211 The success of Green Acre as a Bahaʼi institution began to inspire other regional schools for the religion first came Bosch Bahaʼi School becoming more formally a Bahaʼi school in 1927 and another in 1931 at Louhelen Bahaʼi School 169 The pace of race amity meetings continued nationwide for Bahaʼis into 1928 when it was again held at Green Acre in August 207 pp 183 4 Randall also took part in it 212 Perhaps Randall s final appearance was August 1928 at a commemoration of the visit of ʻAbdu l Baha to Green Acre 213 Randall died Feb 11 1929 93 Meanwhile in 1928 Ober gave a talk in Brooklyn 214 and Grace hosted an evening social at Green Acre 215 That year the official board of Green Acre the Fellowship formally deeded Green Acre to a trustees appointed by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahaʼis of the United States 168 Lunt served on the national assembly that year 216 The regular program at Green Acre ran in 1930 with talks and services by Albert Vail Glenn Shook Stanwood Cobb Genevieve Coy Doris Gregory Allen McDaniel A B Herst Mrs Willard McKay and Louis Gregory 217 218 A third Race Amity Convention was also held at Green Acre that year despite the onset of The Great Depression 202 207 p 187 219 and among which officers of the national Urban League assisted 207 p 188 The 1931 summer conference included a talk by William Leo Hansberry of Howard University discussing the science behind recognizing Negro civilizations in Ancient Africa 207 p 190 In the 1930s Genevieve Coy directed studies at Green Acre and more formal classes were undertaken than lectures on languages and Bahaʼi texts for example 10 Fundraising at Green Acre was undertaken to aid in the construction of the Bahaʼi House of Worship Wilmette Illinois 10 By 1932 both Farmer and Randall were noted as Disciples of ʻAbdu l Baha 11 p 166 The 1932 season was noted in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania 220 The Ober family purchased a home near Green Acre in 1932 in the midst of the Great Depression 221 and Harlan soon was reading on the radio at Portsmouth s WHEB station weekly after noon from spring into the fall from 1933 into 1935 with occasional gaps 222 Grace spoke at the Portsmouth chapter of Hadassah 223 and Ober was also visible at other events a funeral 224 and several series of talks in 1933 225 In 1933 he also gave a program series on Psychology and Life for Alpha Beta sorority 226 and a ladies club 227 The regular summer season at Green Acre took place 228 229 230 231 Glenn Shook s talk was profiled in the local paper 232 And a Race Amity Conference was held too 207 p 194 233 following which Gregory expressed satisfaction with the now long history of Race Amity meetings at Green Acre despite the economic troubles during the Great Depression 207 p 212 A Race Amity Convention was held at a time when few others were being held across the country 207 p 198 in August 1934 234 235 It proved to be the last in the 1930s 207 p 214 In 1936 the national assembly had noted that race amity meetings had sometimes emphasized race differences rather than unity and reconciliation when held at a national level and instead asked local communities to provide meetings which a few communities continued to do later into the 1930s 207 pp 213 4 In November Ober gave a talk in Eliot for the Christian Endeavor Society 236 and Zeta Alpha Men s Club of a Baptist church 237 The family wintered in New York to February 1935 238 and their college student daughter visited them in the summer of 1935 239 There was also smaller race amity conference that year as part of the general session 207 p 211 It hosted week long course on Racial likenesses and differences the scientific evidence and the Bahaʼi Teachings by Genevieve Coy and there were individual talks by Coy Glenn Shook Standwood Cobb Lunt and Samuel Chiles Mitchell past president of the University of South Carolina 1909 1913 207 p 212 Ober was a substitute speaker in January 1936 at Green Acre 240 and lead a funeral there 241 The Summer schedule at Green Acre went on 242 including Montford Mills Louis G Gregory Manses L Sato Dorothy Beecher Baker Mary Collison Hishmat Alai and featuring Stanwood Cobb 243 Then there was another Race Amity session during the summer session of the school 244 The structure of the classes and offerings at Green Acre further transitioned from summer conferencing to focused classes that year too noting participation by Horace Holley Edward H Adams Louis G Gregory with music by Evelyn Loveday sessions by Mrs M B Trotman Maxwell Miller Mrs Bishp Lewis Ludmilla Bechtold Theodore C A McCardy and more music by Martha Boutwell 245 After serving on the national assembly off an on into the 1930s Lunt died from an illness in 1937 and Shoghi Effendi asked the entire national assembly to assemble at his gravesite on his behalf in Boston 207 p 232 3 That year a Hall was built replacing the burned down Eirenion a decade earlier and the fourth floor of the Inn was renovated 10 246 247 248 Grace Ober died immediately after giving a talk at the Chicago Bahaʼi national convention in April 1938 Harlan was then serving on the national spiritual assembly after traveling in Louisville Kentucky 249 Harlan gave the next talk at Green Acre that July 1938 250 and the August schedule for Green Acre took place 251 Ober then toured universities in December 252 and served on the Green Acre summer committee for the school in 1939 253 The 1939 season at Green Acre went on 254 with among the teachers Louis Gregory and Horace Holley and officers of the program committee including Mrs Harold Bowman Ober Lorna Tasker and Marjorie Wheeler and there was a focus on discussing international problems 255 Nancy Bowditch edit Main article Nancy Douglas Bowditch Also known as Mrs Harold Bowditch Nancy was the daughter of George de Forest Brush who was active in Dublin New Hampshire as well as Europe 256 257 258 Though she was among those who had met ʻAbdu l Baha at Green Acre her life changed with the unexpected death of her husband shortly after and she and her new child soon moved away it wasn t until she came across the religion again in 1927 and heard Randal speak that she considered the religion This may have been an event the Boston Bahaʼi community hosted called a World Unity Conference as part of a series sponsored by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Bahaʼis of the United States A report of the conference was published in the Boston Evening Transcript 259 Randall helped organize and spoke at it 260 She then credits Randall Louise Drake Wright and her sister Mrs George Nelson as aiding her inquiry into the religion while she read books like Bahaʼu llah and the New Era 257 She officially joined the religion in 1929 257 She was visible in the 1930 Race Amity Convention held at Green Acre 261 and left on Bahaʼi pilgrimage in late March 1931 with her then 19 yr old daughter 257 They spent three weeks in the area of Haifa and left by way of Jerusalem taking in Christian paths of pilgrimage 257 She then attended the 1931 national convention reporting on events in Boston as the chair of the Boston Assembly 262 Bowditch repeated her activity at the Green Acre Race Amity conference in 1934 263 including an event at her home 264 In 1936 she assisted in World Order magazine publications with some cover art 265 In 1937 she offered a talk for the summer program at Green Acre that also dedicated a new hall 266 In 1938 she took up residence in a summer studio at Green Acre 267 and ran a program on art for the school 268 There is a break in visible activity in 1940 and her father died April 24 1941 257 but she was again involved at Green Acre in July 1941 for a pageant 269 After another year gap in activity she was on the centenary committee of 1943 44 270 to commemorate the founding of the religion in 1844 In Portsmouth she offered a program at the Bahaʼi library about her pilgrimage 271 as well as at Green Acre 272 She was on the maintenance committee for Green Acre across 1945 1947 273 In Teaneck New Jersey she offered a program for youth on dramatizations of the religion 274 and her poem The Song of Tahirih was published in July 1947 World Order magazine 275 In 1948 she was listed as the corresponding secretary of the Bahaʼi group of Brookline Massachusetts 276 and offered a program in nearby Hamilton Massachusetts 277 Her mother died in 1949 278 In 1950 she published a play The desert tent An Easter play in three episodes 279 In 1953 Bowditch was noted helping a Portsmouth community pageant 280 and her family moved to Peterborough New Hampshire in the south of the state in 1959 281 attended the 1963 Bahaʼi World Congress with her husband and a granddaughter 257 and in 1965 Bowditch is pictured on the first local Spiritual Assembly of Brookline the local administrative organization of the religion 282 1972 she was noted for a Portsmouth Friends of the Library 283 spoke at Meriden Connecticut on her memory of meeting ʻAbdu l Baha 284 and aided in costumes for play at Keene State College 285 She died May 1 1979 257 and a posthumously published memoir The Artist s Daughter Memoirs 1890 1979 was printed with the aide of her grandchildren 257 Regular hosts at Green Acre were Bahiyyih Randall and Harry Ford along with Mildred Mottahedeh in the 1940s 10 Louis Gregory and Curtis Kelsey led a race unity workshop at Green Acre in August 1940 202 207 p 278 and there was a focus on religion and science in a series of talks as well as individual talks 286 During the tenure of Randall and Ford Randall gathered historical materials both at Green Acre and from the Bahaʼi national archives 11 p 14 the fourth floor of the Inn was renovated and a new separate building Baha i Hall was built 11 p 166 In 1941 a trusteeship was created for Green Acre for the National Spiritual Assembly of the United States and Canada its members were Allen McDaniel Dorothy Baker Roy Wilhelm Horace Holley Siegfried Scholpflocher Leroy Ioas Amelia Collings Louis Gregory Harlan Ober 287 The Bahaʼis officially announced the new name of the institution as the Green Acre Bahaʼi School 10 The extended program of events carried on with wide attendance 288 That year the site also began to host annual race unity conferences that year having talks by Louis Gregory Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and The Crisis Matthew Bullock and Dorothy Baker 207 p 278 In July 1942 Helen Archambault William Kenneth and Robert Christian Harry Ford Ober and Cobb all gave talks at the summer session of Green Acre 289 followed by a study class series by William Kenneth Roberta Christian and Ober 290 Paul Haney married Helen Margery Wheeler there in 1942 190 Shook s talk at Green Acre in July 1942 was profiled in the local paper 291 and his presentations went on into September along with other events 292 A number of prominent Bahaʼis were in a Green Acre Race Amity conference in August 1942 Dorothy Beecher Baker Matthew Bollock Ali Kuli Khan Mabel Jenkins Harlan Ober Lorna Tasker Louis Gregory Doris McKay Hillery Thorne and Harriet Kelsey were all on the speaker list 293 Among the other presenters were Phyllis Weatley and James Weldon Johnson 207 p 278 Ober continued at a general session at Green Acre a few days later 294 295 1943 edit 1943 was a year of race riots around the United States the Beaumont race riot of 1943 of mid June the Detroit race riot of 1943 of late June and the Harlem riot of 1943 of early August Profiles of the religion s teaching of race unity had been highlighted by Alice Simmons Cox in The New York Age in the winter spring 296 Dorothy Beecher Baker had a talk series including the subject of race unity in Rochester NY in late July 297 just before the Green Acre summer session and Mrs Charles Witt talk on race unity over in Los Angeles CA 298 Ober was one among several present in an August series of talks at Green Acre Mary Coristine Philip Sprague Lorraine Welsh Lorna Tasker Mary McClendon Gertrude Atkinson Louis Gregory Horace Holley Mrs Florence Breed Khan Hesmat Ala i Maud Mickle and Mabel Jenkins all contributed on topics of equality of women and unity of humanity 299 with the largest attendance of the season 207 p 278 partly from a nationwide call for the prominence of the topic 207 p 284 while the late August session also featured a review of the life of Muhammad 300 The National assembly had set in motion a series of efforts in anticipation of the Centenary of the Declaration of the Bab 301 saying the situation of race in the country demands our devoted attention and endeavor throughout September and October the fundamental teaching of the Faith its most challenging principle its swift healing antidote for the ills of a divided world There was a specific attempt to reach the public and on the subject of the oneness of mankind race unity The conference achieved some newspaper publicity 302 and there was indeed a breadth of many talks by Bahaʼis into November 303 Among them were Dorothy Beecher Baker 304 Louis G Gregory 305 and Alain Locke 306 The next summer of 1944 had its own crisis There was a series by managed by Ober and Nancy Bowditch in early July 307 but pleas came from the National Assembly that Tera Cowart Smith drop her plans in Atlanta and arrange to be at Green Acre to take over the management of the summer session 308 p 61 7 She reports great difficulty in deciding to go in the face of having to drop her clients and in getting there and many privations figuring out how to feed the guests Mildred Mottahedeh was there assisting her through the period and 75 guests came The public news covered her at Green Acre 309 310 The race unity meeting had Genevieve Coy Mildred Mottahedeh Ober Gregory Lydia Martin and Sarah Martin Pereira and Matthew Bullock who himself recalled the bitter disappointment of integrated service in the military and returning home to a segregated society 207 pp 278 90 311 The national assembly advertised for managers for Green Acre in November 312 Ober also gave a later series at the Portsmouth Bahaʼi Center late in the year and into spring 1945 313 314 Sessions of near one hundred people ran in the 1945 race unity meeting and in 1946 a week long study was done on The Negro in American Life 207 p 279 Gregory called it the most wonderful season in its history save that of 1912 when His Holidness ʻAbdu l Baha Himself taught here 207 p 299 Winter season classes were begun in 1947 by Emanuel Manny and Janet Reimer in their cottage on campus which grew to be housed in the main Fellowship Hall 10 Though talks were held in June 1949 315 during the rest of 1949 and 1950 the executive decision was made by then head of the religion Shoghi Effendi to close Green Acre School for two years of austerity while the final push to finish the Bahaʼi House of Worship was under way A program for World Religion Day did take place in January 1950 over in Portsmouth with Bahaʼi support and others 316 Shook was elected chair of the Eliot assembly in 1950 the other members were Lucien McComb Mrs McComb Thorton Pearsall Vincent Minutti Mrs Delbert Cress Mrs Dudley Blakely Mrs John Marlow Emaniel Reimer 317 and other smaller events took place 318 1950s edit Green Acre Bahaʼi School was reopened in 1951 10 thanks in part to youth groups working on getting the facility ready 11 p 114 Louis G Gregory edit Main article Louis G Gregory nbsp Louis G and Louisa Mathew Gregory Louis G Gregory went to Green Acre in the fall of 1911 for the first time it was just a few months after his return from Bahaʼi pilgrimage 207 p 49 319 In 1912 he married Louise Matthews He was next known at Green Acre in 1917 when he gave a talk Prophetic proofs of the Baha i Revelation 176 In 1920 the Gregories were able to spend some ten days together after many months each traveling in different directions for the religion amidst a time where inter racial marriage was socially troubled and he was so onerous and irritable so unlike himself that his wife was in despair over his condition nevertheless he set out on the longest of his teaching tours the following year 207 pp 91 117 From then on most summers they were able to be in the environment at Eliot and it became their home base 207 p 185 In 1922 while a member of the National Spiritual Assembly he chaired the summer program and gave two talks at Green Acre Prayer and Praise and The Holy Mariner 192 207 p 122 They were there in 1923 207 p 123 He attended the organizing 1925 national convention held at Green Acre 11 p 93 The 1926 summer program at Green Acre had Gregory as co director with Albert Vail and Howard MacNutt 207 p 160 They were there in June 1929 before the Green Acre program started 207 p 186 Like many leaders in the religion the Gregories began to serve overseas for extended periods in the 1930s Louise in Europe at first and then the both of them in Haiti 207 p 246 The Gregorys returned to Green Acre in 1938 but wintered in Cambridge 207 p 254 In 1940 the Gregories bought a different summer cottage in Eliot 320 and a winter apartment in Portsmouth 321 A small community held Nineteen Day Feast in September 1941 322 Gregory served several years on the Green Acre school committee itself in the 1940s 207 p 297 and loved to work with children s classes 207 pp 298 9 From 1946 now that Louise was over eighty years old and less independent Gregory stayed more at home than traveling the country as he had done for decades 207 p 305 Both his race and their inter racial marriage seemed well accepted in Eliot Friends often saw them on the porch or at events in Green Acre and their garden was doing well at home 207 p 305 In December 1948 Gregory suffered a stroke a couple months after returning from a funeral for a friend 207 p 306 323 and between him and his wife whose health also declined began to stay closer to home His recovery was more than the doctor predicted when a couple months later he had regained his hand writing though slanted 207 pp 306 7 By the summer of 1949 he was again carrying on an active correspondence In particular Gregory carried on correspondence with U S District Court Judge Julius Waties Waring and his wife in 1950 51 who was involved in Briggs v Elliott even while Green Acre was closed for austerity Gregory died aged seventy seven on July 30 1951 He is buried at Eliot and just a few days later during the memorial service a telegram arrived stating he was appointed as one of the Hands of the Cause the highest office open to individuals in the religion by then head of the religion Shoghi Effendi 207 p 310 Other activities edit Ober stayed home in the summer of 1951 324 and officiated at the funeral of Louis G Gregory 325 which was followed up with a series of talks at Green Acre 326 as well as other opportunities 327 328 329 For a few years the public mentions of Ober are a couple funerals he oversaw 330 331 but in 1956 he gave a series of talks 332 In 1952 the room ʻAbdu l Baha s used while staying there was set aside for prayers and meditation 10 Legal cases began to question the roll of Green Acre as a religious institution and its status for tax reasons 333 In 1954 the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine ruled that the Green Acre Bahaʼi Institute was entitled to tax exemption as a charitable institution 333 334 Horace Holley made public some material on the legal timeline of Green Acre in 1955 sharing information affecting its tax status 168 Nathan Rutstein lived at Green Acre in the summer of 1955 with his new wife before getting into television production and appointed as an Auxiliary Board member for the religion 335 1960s 1990s edit In the 1960s the first full time staff of the school and the first year round live in caretaker were hired Stuart Rhode and Emma Rice 10 The first full time property manager Edwin Miller was hired in the 1970s 10 Emma Rice former Knight of Bahaʼu llah for Sicily became the resident caretaker of the Fellowship House 11 p 167 The tax status of Green Acre Baha i Institute was contested in 1963 and the same court removed the tax exemption based on a 1957 law limiting exemptions to institutions that primarily serve residents of Maine 333 Richard Grover grew into the first full time administrator of Green Acre in the 1980s 10 The administration of Green Acre transferred to Ray Labelle around 1990 and then James and Jeannine Sacco in 1995 96 10 Later in 1997 the US Supreme Court declared the Maine law unconstitutional reverting the tax status of Green Acre 333 Green Acre became recognized as paradigmatic of a Bahaʼi institution 169 A variety of individuals visited in the 1960 and into the 1970s in addition to regular presenters The 1960 session included Firuz Kazemzadeh 336 A Pennacook Indian Gerard Morin aka Little Bishop presented on local Indian culture in Green Acre in 1966 337 Hand of the Cause Ali Akbar Furutan visited in 1969 338 Hand of the Cause William Sears visited in 1978 with his wife Marguerite Reimer Sears as part of establishing the Reimer award for service to Green Acre 11 pp 116 7 Its first recipient was Emma Rice It was also during the 1960s that the first Bahaʼi studies of the history of Sarah Farmer Green Acre and Monsalvat took place by Douglas Martin and H T D Rost 10 This was extended in the 1980s with occasional lectures entitled Farmer Family Memorial Lectures began 11 p 117 while Kenneth Walter published a polemical compilation of the rise and fall of transcendentalism at Green Acre in 1980 recalling the vehemence against the Bahaʼis 61 The Association for Bahaʼi Studies held its first regional conference at Green Acre in 1983 10 Sessions began to be held preserving Green Acre history and in 1986 the National Spiritual Assembly made the restoration of the Sarah Farmer Inn a goal for the Bahaʼis of the Northeast 10 In 1989 local chapters of peace groups offered programs at Green Acre and centennial observances began starting with its inception in 1890 11 p 118 Restoration of the Sarah Farmer Inn continued for many years as funds became available and was finally completed in summer of 1994 10 the centennial of the first Greenacre Meeting entitled 100 Years for Peace commemorated with a post office cancelation and some 1500 guests greater than the population of the town of Eliot when the site opened 11 pp 118 9 Some 300 attended program of the Vedanta Society to commemorate Swami Vivekenda s presence in 1894 with a plaque along with publishing a collection of poetry Voice of Lovers 11 p 119 Bahaʼi academies and training sessions by the Bahaʼi International Community office at the United Nations were held in the 1990s In 1998 the institution of the Black Men s gathering began annual meetings at Green Acre Bahaʼi School after being hosted at Louis Gregory Bahaʼi Institute and other places until it ended in 2011 Each year the group walked in procession to Gregory s gravesite 11 pp 119 169 339 4 41m Green Acre Bahaʼi School has also been home to the annual Turning 15 Academy Badasht Prep Academy Badasht Academy variously named and often named after the Conference of Badasht since the summer of 1999 as a week long intensive study of Bahaʼi history and religious practices 11 p 119 340 Since 2000 edit nbsp Sarah Farmer Inn at Green Acre November 2017 In 2000 Ruhi Institute courses were offered 11 p 120 Observances memorializing the deaths in 9 11 were held in cooperation with the Eliot public library and the local congregational church In 2002 the old Baha i Hall was taken down and replaced the same year with the Curtis and Harriet Kelsey Center 11 p 120 which featured an auditorium for 220 seats and seven classrooms 341 Noted scholar on Khalil Gibran Suheil Bushrui 342 spoke at Green Acre Bahaʼi school in 2003 giving a two day course on ʻAbdu l Baha s teachings on peace 343 Renovations and expansion at Green Acre as part of an investment across all the Bahaʼi schools was initiated in 2000 under the name Kingdom Project and finished in 2005 344 In 2004 a commemorative peace garden was established at the School and the property of the home of the Gregory s was added to the holdings of Green Acre Bahaʼi School in Eliot 11 p 121 In 2005 the centenary of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty and Farmer s involvement was established in a Sarah Farmer Peace Award by the Bahaʼis of Eliot and has been given out annually 345 346 and Ryozo Kato Japanese Ambassador to the United States in 2005 made an official visit to Green Acre commemorating the treaty 11 p 122 The events were held included re enactments for Theodore Roosevelt Ida B Wells Thomas Edison William Jennings Bryan and Fred Harvey as well as Sarah Farmer herself along with contributions from speakers writers and artists were held at Green Acre Bahaʼi School itself as well as a meeting of the Association of Bahaʼi Studies of the US and Canada 11 pp 123 9 The School also continued to network with the area chapter of the NAACP 347 In 2007 sessions included the sitting Chair for Peace from the University of Maryland Dr John Grayzel gave a class with the chair of the Portsmouth Peace Treaty Anniversary Committee 11 p 132 The Eliot 2010 bicentenary was celebrated and there was a play at Green Acre as part of it 348 Green Acre was also reviewed in line with other movements of the turn of the 20th century in a documentary about peace activism related to the Treaty of Portsmouth 349 and was premiered on the campus in 2012 during the centenary of ʻAbdu l Baha s visit 350 Four more buildings were dedicated after a four year construction project the Harry Randall Guest House Louise and Louisa Gregory Cottage Mildred and Rafi Mottahedeh Cottage and Emma Rice Cottage replacing four of the older cottages on the property 351 In Washington D C a commemorative tour recalled Stanwood Cobb s association with Green Acre and Eliot 352 Don Tennant appreciated living in the atmosphere of honesty at Green Acre while he wrote Spy the lie published in 2012 while his wife worked at Green Acre 353 354 Further reading editAmador Seren Gates May 2019 Within the heart of every human being Sarah Farmer her life her work and her search for universal truth PhD Syracuse University Department of Religion Leigh Eric Schmidt 6 August 2012 Restless Souls The Making of American Spirituality University of California Press ISBN 978 0 520 95411 3 Anne Gordon Perry Rosanne Adams Junkins Robert Atkinson Richard Grover Diane Iverson Robert H Stockman Burton W F Trafton Jr 2012 1991 Green Acre on the Piscataqua A Centennial Celebration 3rd ed Baha i Publishing Trust ISBN 978 0 87743 364 4 Margaret A Elliott 2005 Eliot Arcadia Publishing ISBN 978 0 7385 3771 9 Catherine Tumber 1 January 2002 Cultural Experimentation in the New Age American Feminism and the Birth of New Age Spirituality Searching for the Higher Self 1875 1915 Rowman amp Littlefield ISBN 978 0 8476 9749 6 Robert H Stockman 2002 Thornton Chase First American Bahaʼi Bahaʼi Pub Trust ISBN 978 0 87743 282 1 References edit J Dennis Robinson 2005 The Meaning of Piscataqua SearchostNH com Archived from the original on August 7 2015 Retrieved August 7 2015 Russell M Lawson 2007 The Piscataqua Valley in the Age of Sail A Brief History The History Press p 18 ISBN 978 1 59629 219 2 Eliot History Time Line Old Berwick Historical Society March 16 2001 Retrieved November 1 2013 a b Ingersoll Anna Josephine October 1900 Greenacre on the Piscataqua Alliance Publishing Co Sullivan Jacqueline Ballou The House on Goodwin Road eliothistoricalsociety org Retrieved August 1 2015 a b c d e f g h i j k J Dennis Robinson 2013 Going Crazy in Portsmouth SeascostNH com Retrieved August 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