The Helicon Home Colony was the brainchild of the renowned author and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair. It lasted less than 6 months and went down in a literal blaze. "We stood in the snow and watched our beautiful utopia flame and roar, until it crashed in and died away to a dull glow."

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Links & Resources

• The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Autobiography of Upton Sinclair
• Utopia, New Jersey: Travels in the Nearest Eden by Perdita Buchan
• Radical Innocent: Upton Sinclair by Anthony Arthur

Written and produced by Anna Roberts

Burning palm tree artwork by Perry Vasquez

Intro music by Elliot Middleton

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