Printed: The Shakers; [...]Today the community organized at Hancock, Mass., in 1790 is beginning a new phase of witness to the Shaker way. There are only 932 acres of pasture and farmland instead of some 5,000 and only 17 buildings instead of 34. And there are no Shakers at all. A nonprofit corporation [...], titled Shaker Community, Inc., has opened Hancock Shaker Village to the public for seven days a week [...] thus preserving the fossil of a unique movement in U.S. religious history. Singing & Dancing. The term Shakers - like Quakers - was originally a derisive taunt by "the world's people"; their official name is the United Society of Believers. The society was founded by a puissant prophetess name Mother Ann Lee, the daughter of a British blacksmith, who brought her eight origiinal disciples to America in 1774. they settled in Watervliet, N.Y. to live, in the words of Mother Ann, "as though you had 1,000 years to live and as you would if you knew you must die tomorrow." 13 Sisters. Nineteen Shakers communities were founded, but the sect was doomed [...] Today two colonies still funstion after a fashion. At Canterbury, N.H. (founded in 1792), eleven old "sisters" live in the remaining 25 of the original 38 buildings [...] And at the Sabbathday Lake Colony near Portland, Me., lived the last male Shaker in the world - Elder Delmar C. Wilson, 88, with 13 "sisters." When to Stay at the Brown [...] BRETHREN & SISTERS DANCING; BROWN BROTHERS; LAST MAN WILSON; DONALD E. JOHNSON; The Brown Palace DENVER, COLORADO; KARL W. MEHLMANN, Res. Mgr. MEMBER: DISTINGUISHED HOTELS; TIME JULY 28, 1961; 53; Inscribed: Time Magazine 7/28/61
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Shakers.
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Hamilton College Library, Clinton, New York, United States.
1750-1999.
“Shakers”.
Last modified March 28, 2023.
Digital Collections, Hamilton College Library.
https://litsdigital.hamilton.edu/do/aa37a2f4-3d58-4a07-aad2-be308e080294