Word: shaker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
While we do have many generous patrons, as you indicated, our nonprofit corporation is scarcely confined to "well-off summer residents of the Berkshires." Our board of directors and donors of money and Shaker articles include scholars, museum personnel from many areas, and dozens of not-so-well-off permanent Berkshire residents...
Slowly the 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...
...Sisters. Nineteen Shaker communities were founded, but the sect was doomed-partly by the growth of outside social services that drastically cut down the numbers of children brought to them to care for, but mainly by the Shaker birth rate of zero...
...colonies still function after a fashion. At Canterbury, N.H. (founded in 1792), eleven old "sisters" live in the remaining 25 of the original 38 buildings where once 400 men and women worked and danced and sang. And at the Sabbathday Lake Colony near Portland, Me., lives the last male Shaker in the world-Elder Delmar C. Wilson, 88, with 13 "sisters...