Make way for brotherhood. Make way for man.
Brotherhood was the name of a colony in Kitsap County, Washington. In 1898, a journalist named Cyrus Field Willard, enthralled by a utopian novel he’d read, Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward, purchased some land on Burley Creek by Puget Sound and got busy. In nearby Skagit County, the Brotherhood of the Cooperative Commonwealth had already established a socialist commune called Equality the previous year. The Brotherhood people imagined that soon Washington state would turn socialist and soon after that, America. With that pleasant prospect in mind, they built their commune in a large circle and made their living fishing, chopping wood, and rolling cigars.
The first lesson Franklin Patrick Herbert Jr. learned, then, was that some folks took their faith very, very seriously. His aunts, fervent Catholics, gave him another variation on the same theme.
And then came the dog.
