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This restored 19th-century village in Kentucky is a window into the lives of the Shakers

Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill preserves a vision of an American utopia.
The Spokesman-Review

One of the last remaining Shakers dies at 89, leaving just 2

PORTLAND, Maine – Sister Frances Carr, one of the last remaining members of a nearly extinct religious society called the Shakers, has died. She was 89. Carr died Monday surrounded by family and ...

Shaker flag football finishes 2nd at state

The Shaker flag football team received the state runners-up plaque on Sunday after losing 26-12 to Half Hollow Hills East in ...
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Making a bold musical about the Shakers? Daniel Blumberg's songs brought the world in tune

If the Shakers have a lasting cultural legacy, it is their music — most famously “Simple Gifts,” the uplifting spiritual Aaron Copland immortalized in his ballet “Appalachian Spring.” It stands to ...
Artnet

6 Objects That Capture Everything Brilliant and Strange About the Shakers

The shakers invented the seed packet. At the ICA in Philadelphia, a show considers the group's design legacy and surging contemporary interest. Installation view of "A World in the Making: The Shakers ...
The Economist

The dying out of the sect’s last members may not mean the end for the Shakers

“I’M GLAD I am a Shaker”, sang some 300 people in the chapel of the dwelling house of the last active Shaker settlement in the world. They clapped and stamped their feet on the wooden floors during ...