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perspective on the community of Stelle as a near-by neighbor. Dan is currently producing a film about Stelle.Dan received his B. S. in documentary films from Northern Illinois University, and his M.A in Film/Televisionproduction from Boston University. He currently resides in Los Angeles.Carroll English has been involved with the Stelle enterprise for 43 years, beginning with the original group thatwas forming in Chicago in 1967. Carroll was one of the first residents of the community of Stelle and hasmaintained her home there since 1974. She received her B.S. in Education and Spanish from Florida StateUniversity and M.S. from Northwestern University in Religious Education and Counseling. She was a teachingmissionary for five years in Cuba prior to, during, and after its revolution. She has traveled extensively, alsovisiting a number of intentional communities across the U.S. In addition to her life-long involvement ineducation, Carroll is a skilled gardener and maintains interest in research in organic gardening methods andPermaculture. Carroll is the author of Poems Marking the Passage of One's Life, and Five Years inRevolutionary Cuba; A Memoir.Session 4-BMillennialism(Thrall‟s Opera House)“The Rock: 30 Years Later”Christine Magula, Utah State UniversityIn 1979, Bob Foster founded "The Rock" (officially the Rockland), an intentional community in southern Utah.Although in the latter-half of the twentieth century a number of Fundamentalist groups have establishedcommunes throughout the West, the Rock is peculiar in contrast to the typical Mormon Fundamentalist scene.Whereas these new communities limit membership to the adherents of their own sects, The Rock providesshelter for several independent fundamentalist families (75 members) whose only mandatory commonalityconsists of a belief in the Book of Mormon, polygamy, and a communal constitution established by the headcouncil. Foster remained the community's leader until his death in 2008. In June, Christine conducted a seriesof oral histories with the current residents of The Rock. The focus of those interviews were to determine theimpact of Foster's passing on the community's dynamics.Christine Magula was born and raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, but has traveled and lived throughout theUnited States, and Japan. She is currently finishing a degree in Religion at Utah State University with a minor inthe Japanese language. Christine is associate editor of the Intermountain West Journal of Religious Studies. Inaddition to her interests in New Religious Movements and Japanese religion, Christine is currently conductingresearch on nineteenth-century Mormonism and disabilities, working with Utah State‘s Center of Persons withDisabilities.“The Architecture of Jonestown and how it both Created the Community and UltimatelyDestroyed It”Laura Johnston Kohl, Jonestown Survivor and Former Synanon ResidentLaura spent time in Jonestown Guyana as it developed into a community of over 1,000 people, from 1977 untilNovember 1978. She will present an audiovisual and oral presentation about the community architecture as itdeveloped in the deep rain forest of Guyana. The isolation of Jonestown allowed rich friendships andcooperation to flourish within the egalitarian community, while the remoteness allowed a paranoia, inspired byJim Jones, to infect the residents. Within the community, the architecture enriched and also complicated ourlives.Laura Kohl has lived communally for one-third of her life in Jonestown and in Synanon. She has presented atthe last two CSA conferences on different aspects of life in Peoples Temple, and she has been interviewed inmany other settings. Laura has just published her autobiography through iUniverse, JONESTOWN SURVIVOR18