Lined up in a row, on top of a counter, are neat piles of coffee, sugar, flour and grain.  Each pile contains enough food for every member of each family unit.  At the end of the day, one member of each family would gather at the Assembly House and be awarded food for their family’s labors.  Those ages 3-14 would spend the day in the community’s school.  Everyone else was expected to meet once a week and find out what the family job would be; jobs were anything from threshing the wheat to baking the bread.  These jobs were for the benefit of the entire society.  No one was a lone island; everyone worked together, played together, lived together, ate together and worshipped together. They were part of one of the most successful communal settlements in American history.  They were the Society of the Separatists of Zoar, aka “Zoarites”.