""City" piece on The Community, an international messianic sect that es" by Laura Conaway
 

Title

"City" piece on The Community, an international messianic sect that established

Authors

Laura Conaway

Source

Casco Bay Weekly

Date

9-5-1996

Pages

4-5

Abstract

"City" piece on The Community, an international messianic sect that established a 20-member commune in Gorham two years ago. The Community, whose believers homeschool their children and punish kids by hitting them on the palm with a thin wooden rod, were at the center of a 1984 police raid on a settlement in Island Pond, Vermont. John Brown of Portland is trying to get his grandaughter away from his son's ex-wife, who resides with The Community in Massachusetts. The Community is opening the Common Ground Restaurant, a cafe in Gorham.

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https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/cbw_1996/36/

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