Simple Gifts : A Memoir of a Shaker Village
Offers a intriguing study of one of America's last Shaker communities, interweaving an account of the daily lives of the women in the community with a study of Shaker traditions and principles and a history of the Shakers in the United States
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Sprigg, a freelance writer and formerly a curator at the Hancock Shaker Village (Pittsfield, MA), sketches the history of this utopian communal society (aka: the United Society of Believers) prefacing her interviews with seven elderly survivors of one of America's last Shaker communities: Canterbury Shaker Village, (Canterbury, NH), already in crisis in 1972. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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