Talk:Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Greenacre
A proposal for integrating his involvement at Greenacre for an inclusion here: Sanborn's first talk at Greenacre was “The Humane treatment of Mental and Spiritual Aberrations” in 1894, (ed - I believe his involvement in mental health issues in the US is substantial and worthy of expansion in the article) and was the beginning of a long collaboration at the institution founded as a summer vacation and encounter school for people interested in religions and spiritual or philosophical ideals. In 1896 Sanborn organized an "Emerson Day" (after Ralph Waldo Emerson), which continued for more than a decade, and that year he also organized a formal reunion of the Concord School of Philosophy, originally organized in 1879 to hallmark and develop transcendentalist ideas in America. Sanborn was working for a "creation of a new shrine" for transcendentalism akin to reforming the Concord School at Greenacre and used his coverage of the work at Greenacre in newspaper stories to frame that development. However the direction of development at Greenacre became a controversy largely between three factions - Sarah Farmer, the founder, who had become involved in the Bahá'í Faith, Professor Lewis G. Janes who ran the summer school's academically oriented comparative religions program, and Sanborn. Sanborn then sided with Janes against Farmer and the involvement of the Bahá'ís. Tensions began to peak around 1913 when a change in the by-laws was feared to take control of Greenacre through legalistic means. Sanborn published arguments over rights of access and Sanborn's wife was one of the proposed guardians of Farmer's interests while she was in ill-health, a position the courts ultimately ruled against in 1916, though after her death Sanborn also called for an official inquiry into the matter. However when Farmer died the legal basis for the Bahá'ís interests controlling Green Acre, as it was initially named in their orientation to the school, became a bitter epitath for the field of transcendentalism. However the mutual interest in race relations and advocacy for African-Americans continued at the institution. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Smkolins (talk • contribs) 13:03, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

Colonial connections
Recently, a link has been established with F.B. and his ancestors who have pedigree back to Henry III of England. This post and site provides some information on the subject as well as provides two associations with Presidents of the U.S. .jmswtlk (talk) 16:58, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Our interest in F.B. is quite varied. We ran into him while reading through the issues of The Massachusetts Magazine to which he contributed. He wrote about Col. T.W. Higginson, for instance. . We started our research on the Col. T.W. after reading F.B.'s article. F.B. was one of the Secret Six. . There are many more connections. jmswtlk (talk) 22:58, 16 November 2022 (UTC)