Zoars: Working Together to Get the Job Done

After learning about the Zoars they didn't really seem to be a group of people that should be known in history. What is so special about them and why do they get the attention that they do? The Zoars seem to just be people that came along and did what they had to do to survive. It is almost as if they were from a long time ago and didn't do things based off their own beliefs. The only thing that really seemed to be different was their communal living style.

                Although the village was really run down and didn't seem like the best place to live, they worked as a community to get done what had to be done. In the morning the people would meet and each would get assigned their job and get their assigned food. For examples: the milk and the bread. The women who made the milk would put the milk in tin buckets. Each bucket had a number on it which corresponded to the house numbers. Each morning someone from the house would stop by the dairy and pick up their bucket with their house number on it. The bread works the same way. The baker would see the house number on the bread cloth and know how many people were in that house and put the right amount of bread in the cloth and it would then be picked up. Everybody worked together to help everyone get what they needed. They are sort of like a mix between the Amish and the Shakers. They have strong beliefs and are religious but at the same time aren’t very strict.