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Today, in the 21st century, the Shaker community that still exists—The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Community—denies that Shakerism was a failed utopian experiment. [ 20 ] Their message, surviving over two centuries in the United States, reads in part as follows:
Though there was a division of labor between men and women, they also cooperated in carrying out many tasks, such as harvesting apples, food production, laundry, and gathering firewood. [7] Every family was designed to be self-supporting with its own farm and businesses, but in times of hardship, other parts of the village, or even other Shaker ...
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). God Among the Shakers: Search for ...
Perhaps most significant to the hostility towards Shakers concerned their celibacy, millenarianism, and views on race and gender. [citation needed]The main current writer on anti-Shakerism compares allegations against them as similar to other celibate religious groups like Roman Catholic monks and nuns, [4] although there are also similarities with hostility to Mormons or Masons.
In fact, the Shakers were inventors or early adopters of many new tools and techniques. For example, in the early 1830s the Shakers of Pleasant Hill constructed a water tower on a high plot of ground. A horse-drawn pump lifted water into the tower, and from there a system of pipes conveyed it to the kitchens, cellars, and wash houses. It is ...
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Late winter is a time for change and renewal, but at McDonald's, it's a time for green.Everyone's favorite unnaturally dyed dessert, the Shamrock Shake, is an unabashedly minty confection that has ...
The site is operated by a non-profit organization established in 1969 to preserve the heritage of the Canterbury Shakers. 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 ...