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...sure that the few remaining Shakers are grateful, as we here are, for the national recognition your article on Hancock Shaker Village [July 28] gave to our efforts to preserve for the public some of the fruits of this unique people's way of life. We are just beginning, and we have a decade or two of work ahead...
...Hancock, Mass...
...Hancock, the director, has, if anything, intensified this somewhat incongruous vaudeville element (wholly serived. I deem, from American productions of Die Dreigroschenoper): marquee lights glitter from the proscenium, news of each scene is projected on a screen from slides (a Ia Chaplin), and poor old Maggie Ziskind, cast as the Widow Leosadia Begbick, a saloon-keeping trollop, has to bundle up in ratty Lotte Lenya togs and belt out a couple of those sour songs that were Mrs. Weill's stock-in-trade. (The words for most of these songs are by Mr. Bentley, the music--as Wall...
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 made up largely of well-off summer residents of the Berkshires, titled Shaker Community, Inc., has opened Hancock Shaker Village to the public for seven days a week ($1 for adults, 50? for children), thus preserving the fossil of a unique movement in U.S. religious history...
...sect grew; whole families joined, and the ranks were swelled by the unmarried mothers and homeless children the Shakers took in. Book learning was not their specialty, but their unsparing attention to plain, practical craftsmanship has made Shaker furniture a landmark in the history of design. Visitors to Hancock Shaker Village are shown their graceful, high-backed chairs and the pegs around their rooms, about 6 feet from the floor, on which they hung the chairs when not in use, to make housecleaning easier. Their window frames were held in place by wooden thumbscrews, which permitted removal of the entire...