On one hand, the records that remain are voluminous, and remaining diaries and letters declare all manner of other nontraditional behavior occurring between the 1841 founding of the group and its dissolution, in 1880. So it seems we’d know if sibling incest happened. On the other hand, in 1947, officers of the Oneida Limited Company—by then a $3.5 million silverware corporation and respected national brand trying to bury its cult origins—secretly filled a truck with the community’s collected archives and burned them at the dump.3 Considering how much of their freaky activity has not been lost
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