The historic milestone will be marked with a kind of Shakerpalooza as more than 100 Shaker scholars, collectors and admirers will gather at the Shaker Historical Society on Saturday. Members of the ...

For Ann Lee, this passage and others in the Bible were signs. They were signs that Christians who wanted to withdraw from " the world" into their own communities could not only sing praises and thanks ...

Hundreds of visitors toured Shaker Village and its historic barn in New Gloucester, Maine, on Sunday during Open Farm Day. (Clarke Canfield/Courthouse News) NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (CN) — At its peak ...

It is the second half of the 19th century, and there were great changes for the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. If you are not familiar with that name, you might be more ...

There’s something in Shaker history that not many people know about. It’s not a secret, per say; it’s more of an unusual societal quirk buried deep within personal journals and rarely documented. But ...

South Union Shaker Village, located in Auburn, Kentucky, offers visitors a glimpse into the history of the Shaker community that thrived there from 1807-1922. The Shakers, a religious sect, built a ...

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A close up of one of the murals in the windows at the1858 Shaker Washhouse at the Shaker Heritage Society's historic site in Colonie. (Courtesy Shaker Heritage Society) The murals in the windows at ...