 Adults can be re-educated to become as natural as little children..." While the participants seemed to enjoy the experiment, the neighbors in the countryside and in Portage were scandalized.Talk of communism, nudity, and sexual license abounded, spiked by Toomer's being of mixed race; hostility arose among the locals.By the end of the summer of 1931, Toomer ended the experiment and documented its demise in his unpublished "Portage Potential".