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Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village is a Shaker village near New Gloucester and Poland, Maine, in the United States. It is the last active Shaker community, with two members as of 2024 [update] . [ 7 ] The community was established in either 1782, 1783, or 1793, at the height of the Shaker movement in the United States.
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 ...
Sabbath Day Lake Shakers, Maine; Interview of the Sabbath Day Lake Shakers; Sabbath Day Lake Shaker Library and Museum Archived 2007-05-01 at the Wayback Machine Shirley Shaker Village, Shirley, Massachusetts
Brackett's father died there on July 27, 1838, but Brackett continued to rise in the Shaker community, eventually becoming the head of the society in Maine. [3] Brackett died in the Shaker community of Sabbathday Lake at New Gloucester, Maine, on July 4, 1882. [1]
In 1987, she converted at 49 years old. Before becoming a Shaker she worked in library sciences. [3] After volunteering in the Shaker Library in New Gloucester, Maine she decided to join the faith. [4] Today she is one of only two living members of the Shaker faith living and working in Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village; the other is Brother ...
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Gertrude Soule leaves Sabbathday Lake to join the Canterbury Village. Mildred Barker, technically a trustee of the community, becomes the de facto spiritual leader for Sabbathday Lake. [56] The schism among the Shakers, now represented by Canterbury on one side of the dispute and Sabbathday Lake on the other, is irreparable. [57] 1975
Only Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester survives under the control of the last few Shakers. Some former communities operate today as museums because, like Alfred Shaker Village, they closed when the congregation dwindled. [10] [11] [12] Artist Joshua Bussell was long a resident of the Alfred community. [13]