An Assassin in Utopia

Bestselling author, historian and journalist Susan Wels will present: An Assassin in Utopia: The True Story of a 19th-Century Sex Cult and a President's Murder. From 1848 to 1881, a small utopian colony in upstate New York—the Oneida Community—was known for its shocking sexual practices, from open marriage and free love to the sexual training of young boys by older women. And in 1881, a one-time member of the Oneida Community—Charles Guiteau—assassinated President James Garfield in a brutal crime that shook America to its core.