Interfaith Scavenger Hunt
All answers can be found by walking or carting around
town; be sure to read plaques, listen to the free Oncell
tours, or ask the Historic New Harmony Interpreters at the
Atheneum!
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While you’re hunting, talk to your group members! What
faiths or ideologies are represented among you? What do
“interfaith” efforts mean to you? Why are they important?
Happy Hunting from Historic New Harmony!
Question
This architecturally significant building is
meant to be “a place of literary and scientific
learning” and is the start of our historic tours
in New Harmony.
There are two circular structures in town,
one sits at the south edge and the other at
the north western edge, which are made of
hedges or stone, and promote reflection and
spiritual contemplation. What are they?
What structure was our stone path Cathedral
Labyrinth modeled after?
The 6 petals of the flower created in the
Answer
center of the Cathedral Labyrinth are meant
to represent six spiritual realms. What are
they?
In a few short sentences, describe the
metaphor that labyrinths create about life
and spirituality.
The Orpheus Fountain at the Cathedral
Labyrinth is in the shape of what ancient
stringed instrument used by Orpheus of
Greek Mythology to tame wild beasts?
This building in town was sponsored by The
Robert Lee Blaffer Trust as a place where
people of all faiths or no faith could come to
reflect, meditate, and is a “house of prayer
for all people”.
At the Roofless Church, the sculpture Angel
of the Annunciation is of whom?
The sculpture under the dome in the
Roofless Church is called “Descent of the
Spirit”. In listening to the Oncell Tour talk
about it, why are the dove’s eyes so large?
In the Roofless Church, what is the title of
this version of a well-known psalm?
The Lord is my pilot; I shall not drift.
He lights me across the dark waters. He
steers me through the deep channels.
He keeps my log. He guides me by the Star of
Holiness for His Name's sake.
As I sail through the storms and tempests of
life I will dread no danger; for You are near
me; Your love and care shelter me.
You prepare a haven before me in the
Homeland of Eternity;
You quieten the waves with oil; my ship rides
calmly.
Surely sunlight and starlight shall be with me
wherever I sail,
and at the end of my voyaging I shall rest in
the port of my God.
In the Roofless Church there is a plaque that
reads “There are no strangers in this place
because ____________.”
What is the title and who is the author of this
poem that can be found in the Roofless
Church?
When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.
With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil’s walking parody
On all four-footed things.
The tattered outlaw of the earth,
Of ancient crooked will;
Starve, scourge, deride me: I am dumb,
I keep my secret still.
Fools! For I also had my hour;
One far fierce hour and sweet:
There was a shout about my ears,
And palms before my feet.
In the Roofless Church there is a plaque with
the Bible’s Proverbs 29:18 on it. It states
“Where there is no _________, people
perish”
The fountain in the Roofless Church is
dedicated to all ________ “for the great
goodness that flows through and from
them”.
Why is the Roofless Church “roofless”?
The Fountain of Life is located in which
garden in town?
Inside the New Harmony Inn, what prayer
was dedicated by Rabbi Harold S Kushner?
Inside the New Harmony Inn, the 1971
artwork called Two Crosses is the artist’s
passionate protest against ______ and
______.
Inside the New Harmony Inn Entry House
there is an intricate and colorful painting in
the round chapel. Name the eight Archangels
depicted.
At Tillich Park, behind the New Harmony Inn,
complete this statement “Man and Nature
belong __________.”
Behind Tillich Park there is a sculpture titled
St. Francis and the Birds. What is the story
behind this sculpture?
The poem Birches in Winter, which is located
near St. Francis and the Birds, is written by
whom?
At Ellen Field, Thomas Merton states “There
are two things men can do about the pain of
disunion with other men- they can _____ or
they can _____.”
According to the plaque at the Our Lady,
Queen of Peace sculpture at Ellen Field,
Thomas Merton was a ______.
Where can you get the key to go inside the
Chapel of the Little Portion?
The Chapel of the Little Portion is dedicated
to __________.
What does the poem Stranger, found at the
pond waterfall behind the New Harmony Inn,
mean to you?
The title of the sculpture in front of the
Barn Abbey, Shalev, comes from the
combination of two Hebrew words: sha,
meaning _____; and lev, meaning ______.
What is the name of the red painted steel
sculpture located on the front lawn of The
New Harmony Inn? It was designed by Larry
Reising and fabricated by Tom and Elmer
Helfrich, all of Posey County, Indiana. Arch
Abbot Timothy Sweeney of St. Meinrad
Archabbey presided at the dedication.
Ninth century Woodland Culture Native
Americans are buried in New Harmony.
Where can their burial mounds be found?
From where did the bricks that make the
wall of the Harmonist Cemetery come?
Why are there no headstones in the
Harmonist Cemetery?
To whom do the headstones outside of the
Harmonist Cemetery belong?
What is the name of the Society formed by
Constance Fauntleroy for the intellectual
enhancement of the young women of New
Harmony in 1859?
According to our research and the
information on display at Community House
No. 2, how many times did the Harmonists
stop what they were doing to pray each day?
Father George Rapp, the founder of New
Harmony, was the founder of what religious
sect?
New Harmony was founded in 1814 by the
Harmonists, religious separatists from
Germany. What does it mean to be a
“religious separatist”?
Robert Owen, a Welsh industrialist who had
developed his ideas about community in
New Lanark, Scotland, considered the
established church an impediment to social
reform. Therefore his community here in
New Harmony, the attempted Utopian
society after the Harmonists, was secular.
What does it mean to be “secular”?
Go to the New Harmony Gallery of
Contemporary Art and find one piece that
speaks to you and your ideologies and
describe it in a few sentences.
How many churches are there currently on
Church Street?
What happened to the Harmonist Churches
that stood in the center of town?
Why is Church Park called Church Park?
In the winter of 1825-1826 Robert Dale
Owen and William Maclure brought a large
keel boat loaded with scientists, teachers,
philosophers, writers and other learned
people from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to
New Harmony, Indiana. They traveled from
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, down the Ohio
River to the mouth of the Wabash River, and
then up the Wabash to New Harmony. It was
arguably the largest gathering of learned
people to ever assemble on a single boat and
it was later dubbed __________. A mural can
be found inside the Working Men’s Institute
depicting this information.
At Holy Angels Park, read aloud and
contemplate the “Declaration Toward a
Global Ethic” and finish the closing sentence,
“We commit ourselves to this global ethic…”
Sketch the sculpture in the space to the
right.
At Playtopia in Murphy Park, what is the
front gate entrance called? And for what is it
named?
The _______ built by the Harmonist was
described by John Melish in 1822, “This was
a most elegant flower garden with various
hedgerows disposed in such a manner as to
puzzle people to get into the little temple,
emblematic of Harmony, in the middle. It
represents the difficulty of arriving at
harmony….”
Pick one quote or saying from inside the
Labyrinth’s temple and reflect on what it
means to you in a few short sentences.
All of the faiths that participated in the
Bicentennial Interfaith Service on August 10,
2014 at the Roofless Church shared Prayers
for _____ from their traditions with the
people that attended.
Stop by the Atheneum for a copy of the answers to this scavenger hunt. While there,
engage with our interpreters on any of the topics that you learned about here. Please
also enjoy the many books and other items for sale in the gift shop
that reflect New Harmony’s rich history!
If you enjoyed the Interfaith Scavenger Hunt produced by Historic New Harmony,
please let others know by telling them in person,
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with “Interfaith” as the subject line!
Thank you and enjoy the rest of your time in utopia!