The Shakers

Author : Michael K. Komanecky
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847842622
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakers written by Michael K. Komanecky and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important book on Shaker art and life, offering a fresh look at a style that has endured through centuries and continues to inspire designers and homeowners. This book presents the elegantly austere and simply styled objects of the Shakers in the context of their faith and community at Mount Lebanon, N.Y., the spiritual and administrative center of the Shaker world. Outstanding examples of furniture, textiles, tools, and other objects-drawn primarily from the collection of Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon-bring the fascinating world of the Shakers to life. The book also explores the equally compelling material culture of Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester, Maine, the last active Shaker community, and how this group of Shakers continued to thrive while other Shaker communities elsewhere gradually disappeared. Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Farnsworth Art Museum, this book presents a new and authentic perspective on the Shaker community. Specially commissioned photography, archival imagery, essays by prominent scholars, and a firsthand interview with a member of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community deepen our understanding of this influential movement and style.

Author : Amy Stechler
Publisher : Random House Value Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780517033098
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakers written by Amy Stechler and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Highly pictorial presentation of "the history and vision of the United Society of Believers in Christ's second appearing from 1774 to the present."

Author : Nardi Reeder Campion
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874515275
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mother Ann Lee written by Nardi Reeder Campion and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1976 as Anne the Word, this is a popular biography of colorful and controversial Shaker founder Ann Lee.

Author : David R. Starbuck
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9781584652106
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Neither Plain Nor Simple written by David R. Starbuck and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2004 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canterbury Shaker Village, located in Canterbury, New Hampshire, just northeast of Concord, has seen more archeological research than any other Shaker community. David R. Starbuck has been digging there for over a quarter of a century. Beginning in 1978, Starbuck and his team mapped some 600 acres of the village, preparing sixty-one base maps, as well as dozens of drawings of foundations and mill features. Accompanying the maps were several hundred archeological site reports describing the history and present condition of every field, dump, foundation, wall, path, and orchard within the community. These documents offered the first comprehensive look at both the built and natural environment of any Shaker village. This above-ground study—with much updating—forms the second part of this volume. Through the 1980s, grant funding was available chiefly for above-ground recording and only rarely for excavating. Still, from the beginning Starbuck and his team speculated about what types of unexpected artifacts might be found if excavations were conducted in the Shaker dumps or in the nicely-manicured lawns behind the village’s communal dwellings. With the 1992 death of Sister Ethel Hudson, the community’s last surviving member, it seemed clear that Canterbury Shaker Village represented an unparalleled opportunity to use archeology as a cross-check on surviving nineteenth-century historical records and visitors’ accounts. The Canterbury Shakers constitute one of the very best test cases for historical archeology precisely because they were a society that tightly controlled their internal descriptions of themselves. Because we know what the Shakers expected of themselves, we can use excavations to determine whether they actually lived up to their own ideals. Excavations into various dumps began in 1994. In the Second Family blacksmith shop foundation, for example, Starbuck discovered thousands of pipe wasters—evidence that the Canterbury Shakers manufactured red earthenware tobacco pipes for sale to the World’s People. The Shakers’ hog house contained numerous ceramics and glass bottles; at another dump almost a hundred stoneware bottles for beer or ginger beer were unearthed along with whisky flasks, perfume bottles, and false teeth. These new artifacts contradict the popular image of the Shakers as plain, simple, and otherworldly, thereby challenging existing paradigms about the nature of Shaker society. Starbuck’s findings suggest that Shaker consumption practices were highly complex and that Shakers were perhaps more "human" than previously imagined. Neither Plain nor Simple, which brings together the original site maps with his most recent findings, will serve as the definitive archeological investigation of the Canterbury Shakers and their lifeways, and function as a model for similar archeological studies of communal societies.

Author : Suzanne Skees
Publisher : Hyperion
ISBN 13 : 9780786883646
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book God Among the Shakers written by Suzanne Skees and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1999-03-03 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of "Plain and Simple" and "The Cloister Walk", this book offers a rare, intimate account of one woman's journey into the world of the Shakers--a radical Christian sect whose belief in a Mother-Father God, equal rights for all, and direct interaction with the spirits of the dead shocked other established religious communities Print ads. NPR sponsorships .

Author : Stephen J. Paterwic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937370299
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakers of Enfield, Connecticut, 1780-1968 written by Stephen J. Paterwic and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the Enfield, Connecticut, Shaker Community, from its founding to its closure. Noted Shaker author Stephen J. Paterwic, describes the founding, rise, heyday, and decline of the Enfield, Connecticut, Shakers, with detailed information about the people who joined the community, the lands which were acquired, the buildings that were constructed, and the infighting between factions within the community.

Author : Anita Sanchez
Publisher : McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780939923946
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mr. Lincoln's Chair written by Anita Sanchez and published by McDonald and Woodward Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War struck America's Shaker communities with all the violence of a hurricane. Through the dramatic story of two worlds in collision, author Anita Sanchez gives illuminating insights into the nature of each. As she unfolds the story of the Shakers' quest to spur President Abraham Lincoln to grant them conscientious objector status, the reader realizes how critically important to our nation is the legacy of a people who are too often dismissed as merely being the makers of nice chairs. Vivid and beautifully written, this book is a wonderful introduction to the history, faith, culture and heritage of the Shakers, who have been interacting with and quietly influencing the mainstream culture of the United States for over 230 years while most Americans were unaware it was even happening. -Darryl Thompson Shaker historian and historical interpreter Book jacket.

Author : Robert P. Emlen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781937370282
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagining the Shakers written by Robert P. Emlen and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the half century between 1830 and 1880, the visual culture of America's oldest, largest, and most distinctive communal religious society was portrayed in scores of printed images published in the popular illustrated press. In this book, the author identifies and explicates every known engraving or lithograph that pictured the Shakers in the years of their greatest prosperity and before photography became popular in Shaker communities.

Author : Flo Morse
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 9780874514261
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakers and the World's People written by Flo Morse and published by UPNE. This book was released on 1987 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive illustrated anthology of material about and by the American Shakers.

Author : Stephen J. Paterwic
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538102315
Total Pages : 461 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historical Dictionary of the Shakers written by Stephen J. Paterwic and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-06-15 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Shakerism teaches God’s immanence through the common life shared in Christ’s mystical body.” Like many religious seekers throughout the ages, they honor the revelation of God but cannot be bound up in an unchanging set of dogmas or creeds. Freeing themselves from domination by the state religion, Mother Ann Lee and her first followers in mid-18th-century England labored to encounter the godhead directly. They were blessed by spiritual gifts that showed them a way to live the heavenly life on Earth. The result of their efforts was the fashioning of a celibate communal life called the Christlife, wherein a person, after confessing all sin, through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, can travel the path of regeneration into ever- increasing holiness. Pacifism, equality of the sexes, and withdrawal from the world are some of the ways the faith was put into practice. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of the Shakers contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 300 cross-referenced entries on Shaker communities, industries, individual families, and important people. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the Shakers.