The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 29, July 20, 2003, Article 21

OLE BULL

  David Gladfelter writes: "Ole Bull was also a utopian who
  founded Oleana, a colony in Pennsylvania.  It eventually failed
  as did other utopian colonies. But it is remembered in the folk
  song "Oleana" one verse of which goes: "If you really want to
  live/ To Oleana you must go,/ The poorest wretch in Norway/
  Becomes like a king in a year or so." Folksongs and Footnotes
  by Theodore Bikel, An International Songbook (New York,
  Meridian Books, 1960) p. 213."

  [A web search found a couple references to Oleana, near
  Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, not far from his friend Mickley's
  home city of Philadelphia.   In 2002, Paul W Heimel published
  a book titled "Oleana -  The Ole Bull Colony."
  http://www.mvdaily.com/articles/2003/02/olebull1.htm
  -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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