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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. 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.

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. 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. [4]

7. Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village - Wikipedia

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   Chosen Faith Chosen Land: The Untold Story of America's 21st Century Shakers. ISBN 978-0-89272-903-6. Nan Thayer Ross (2003). Purple on Silk: A Shaker Eldress and Her Dye Journal. Shaker Manifesto Archived 2012-07-24 at the Wayback Machine. The Shakers' monthly magazine, 1871-1899. Suzanne Skees (1999).

8. The Shakers (film) - Wikipedia

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   The Shakers is a 1974 documentary film directed by Tom Davenport and produced by Davenport and Frank DeCola. It studies the last dozen remaining Shakers in their communities, focusing on their daily lives, music, and spirituality, as well as containing Shaker history and interviews with Shakers.

9. Canterbury Shaker Village - Wikipedia

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   Canterbury Shaker Village is an internationally known, non-profit museum and historic site with 25 original Shaker buildings, four reconstructed Shaker buildings and 694 acres (2.81 km 2) of forests, fields, gardens and mill ponds under permanent conservation easement. Canterbury Shaker Village "is dedicated to preserving the 200-year legacy of ...