In America, the world is always ending. Maybe that’s a good thing.
Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, 1887. (Photo via Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical Culture, Moscow)
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The world is always ending. And in 1694, the apocalypse was set for the new millenium in the valley of the Wissahickon Creek in Philadelphia. A group of German monks and mystics, led by the Transylvanian scholar Johannes Kelpius, traveled to America to form what would now be considered the country’s first doomsday cult.
