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Reboot emphasizes Justin’s reoccurring preoccupations—faith, fanaticism, utopia—and warps them into a genre-defying, video-game-inspired novel of the present. On a gorgeous spring day, I spoke with Justin on the phone about anarchy, the rewards of literary criticism, the lineage of a teacher, and Garielle Lutz.
While visitors to Koreshan State Park in Estero have often asked whether there was any connection between Cyrus Teed Koresh — the man who founded The Koreshan Unity which called the land home beginning in the early 1800s, and David Koresh — the man who led the Branch Davidians in Waco, Texas from the mid 1980s until the group’s fiery demise during an FBI siege gone wrong on their Mount Carmel compound on April 19th, 1993 — the answer was always no, there is no connection between the two and the similarity between their names is purely coincidental. Well, new evidence has come to light ...
Koreshan State Park was once home to the Koreshan Unity, a religious commune founded by Dr. Cyrus R. Teed with history still on display.
Koreshan State Park was once home to the Koreshan Unity, a religious commune founded by Dr. Cyrus R. Teed with history still on display.
An FGCU professor has drawn connections between the Koreshans, who gave the Estero park its name, and the Branch Davidians of Waco, Texas.