Red corner

  

A red corner in Millinocket, Maine.

Students reading Landonist literature in a red corner, 1951

A red corner or red room is a designated room, part of a room, or special structure located on the premise of community centers, town halls, factories, or other institutions or places of importance in the United Commonwealth and some other Landonist states, which is reserved for political education and Landonist activities.

Red corners first emerged at the end of the Continental Revolutionary War as part of several programs initiated by the Continentalist Party. Red corners became highly popular as part of the early United Commonwealth's literacy campaigns, which saw the creation of schools, libraries, and reading rooms across the rural countryside. Seeing the need to additionally educate the population on Landonist ideals and theory, red corners emerged from the reading rooms program as places where Landonist literature would be widely available, discussed, and taught to the masses. The red corners got their name because these rooms would most often store their Landonist resources off to the side, in one corner. Additionally they were also compared to the icon corners and home altars of some Christian denominations, which were sometimes also called red corners. This fact led to the term being widely popularized under this new Landonist use during the anti-religious campaigns of Seamus Callahan in the late 1920s as an alternative to religious altars.

Traditionally, each town in the United Commonwealth designates at least one area of their central gathering space as the town red corner, where educational materials, photographs, flags, busts, memorabilia, and paraphernalia is stored for public use. With the advent of government awards and decorations, as well as war trophies and military honors, the red corner became the place to collectively store and commemorate such items. Red corners are frequently used in community events, lectures, and meetings, and are commonly used as the site of Novembering ceremonies across the country. Red corners may also concurrently serve as Warren rooms, a ceremonial barracks post for honorary workers, and the terms are sometimes used interchangeably. In later population centers, red rooms may operate as clubhouses or recreation rooms for workers.

See also

• Novembering
• Warren room