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2. Shakers - Wikipedia

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   In 1988, speaking about the three men and women in their 20s and 30s who had become Shakers and were living in the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Eldress Bertha Lindsay of the other community, the Canterbury Shaker Village, disputed their membership in the society: "To become a Shaker you have to sign a legal document taking the necessary vows ...

3. Shaker communities - Wikipedia

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   East Canterbury, New Hampshire: United Societies of Shakers of America: 110. Smith, Jessie Carney (2013). Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events. Canton, Michigan: Visible Ink Press. ISBN 9781578594245. Stein, Stephen J. (1992). The Shaker Experience in America. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

4. Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village - Wikipedia

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   Blended Together: Discoveries Along The Shaker Music Trail. Kisner, Jordan (September 5, 2024). "There Are Only Two Shakers Left. They've Still Got Utopia in Their Sights". The New York Times. Jeannine Lauber (2009). Chosen Faith Chosen Land: The Untold Story of America's 21st Century Shakers. ISBN 978-0-89272-903-6. Nan Thayer Ross (2003).

5. Shakers once attempted to build a community in Windsor: What ...

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   The society worked diligently to create Shaker communities. They would eventually build 20 communities across the United States. If you are wondering why I am giving you this history lesson.

6. Chronology of Shakers - Wikipedia

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   The chronology of Shakers is a list of important events pertaining to the history of the Shakers, a denomination of Christianity. Millenarians who believe that their founder, Ann Lee, experienced the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, the Shakers practice celibacy, confession of sin, communalism, ecstatic worship, pacifism, and egalitarianism.

7. Ann Lee - Wikipedia

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   Ann Lee herself recognized how revolutionary her ideas were when she said, "We [the Shakers] are the people who turned the world upside down." [dubious – discuss] The Shakers were sometimes met by violent mobs, such as in Shirley, Massachusetts, and Ann Lee suffered violence at their hands more than once. The mission came to an end when Ann ...

8. Union Village Shaker settlement - Wikipedia

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   The Union Village Shaker settlement was a community of Shakers founded at Turtle Creek, Ohio, in 1805. Early leaders sent out from the Shakers' central Ministry at New Lebanon, New York, included Elder David Darrow (1750-1825), who began evangelizing in 1805, and Eldress Ruth Farrington (1763-1821), who arrived in 1806 to help stabilize the new Shaker society.

9. The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God - Wikipedia

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   Ken Burns has said that he chose the topic of the Shakers in large part because his first project, the Oscar-nominated Brooklyn Bridge, was devoted to urban American history; Shakerism offered him an opportunity to explore rural American history.