Maine Shape Note Singers at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village 2014
The Maine Shape Note Singers performing inside the historic 1794 Meeting House at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine. Summer of 2014.
The Shape Note Singers return annually, check out our Facebook and website for a listing of upcoming events.
Friends of the Shakers
The Friends of the Shakers, a non-profit organization founded in 1974, supports the Sabbathday Lake Shakers and the United Society of Shakers at Shaker Village in a variety of ways. With more than 360 members from across the country, and internationally, this group donates time, talents and financial contributions, which are crucial to the perseverance of the Shaker legacy. If you are interested in supporting the Shakers, and helping to preserve Shaker Village as a National Historic Landmark and educational/cultural center, please consider membership in this organization.
Thank you to Olof and Sharyn Ekbergh for the video!
One of the last Shakers dies aged 81
1. Mid view of Sister Marie Frances Burgess making bread
2. Close-up Sister Marie mixing dough
3. B&W Still photograph of New Gloucester community
4. B&W Still photograph of children in community
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Brother Arnold Hadd, Shaker Elder: I have every firm, honest belief that if we are doing God's work, then God will always send people here who will carry on the work and I know in my heart of hearts that that's what's going to happen.
6. Pan view of New Gloucester community at dawn
7. Close-up of date on building
8. Mid view Sister Marie Frances Burgess ringing bell for breakfast
9. Pan view of mostly empty dining room
10. Close-up of needlework sign
11. Mid view of Shakers singing song
STORYLINE:
Sister Marie Frances Burgess, one of the world's last members of the Shaker sect, has died.
She was 81-years-old.
Sister Marie died of natural causes on Monday at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker village, leaving the religious group's only remaining community with six members.
Formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearance, the Shakers originated in England in the 1770s and at its peak had several thousand followers.
They were nicknamed because of their enthusiastic motions during prayer services.
In 1783, Shakers settled at Sabbathday Lake, one of about 20 Shaker communities established in the United States at one time or another.
The Maine village is the only one left.
Members of the community take a vow of poverty and live by the motto Hands to work and hearts to God.
Their simple, efficient furniture designs became famous.
They also take a vow of celibacy, which limited the sect's growth to converts and the adoption of orphans.
They do not, however, shun the modern world and even maintain their own Web site.
Burgess entered the community in 1939, when she was 19, and filled many roles.
She knitted mittens and scarves and made candy, dolls and dusters sold in the community's store.
She worked in the raspberry patch and baked bread and biscuits.
While she was deeply faithful to her religion, Burgess had outside interests.
Brother Arnold Hadd, the village's elder, said Sister Marie's favorite subject was probably the Boston Red Sox baseball team and each season she was convinced they would win the championship.
In an APTN interview in 1999 Brother Arnold said he was not concerned about the diminishing number of Shakers,
He said that somehow God's work would be carried on.
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STORY: Fleeing from persecution in England in 1774, a
group of devout protestant Christians crossed the
Atlantic and started a movement which was to spread into
several American states. Named the Shakers because their
worship involved ecstatic dances, they dedicated
themselves to emulate Christ in self denial and celibacy.
In the 1840s there were more than four-thousand members,
today there are only ten. But nine of those live and work
together observing the strict Shaker tenets in their
farming community in the state of Maine.
SHOWS: Buildings in Sabbathday Lake Shaker village,
Maine: pump in hayfield: apple orchard scenes: sheep and
geese outside barn: Sabbathday Lake: Shaker meeting
house: dwelling house: Shakers sing hymn: men and women
pray together: various scenes of first Shaker settlement,
Watervliet, New York: dairy barn: weathervane atop barn:
cemetery grave of Shaker founder, Mother Ann Lee: various
archive mono stills: derelict remains of former Shaker
settlement, Mount Lebanon, New York: Saabbathday Lake
village from highway: barn: Shakers at morning prayer;
motto, Hands to work, Hearts to God: Brother Arnold,
sot: Brother Wayne in sheep barn: various scenes sheep:
Sister Meg puts herbs into barrel: herbs drying in attic:
herbs packaged: Sister Frances drinks water: Shakers sit
down for meal: women eat dinner: men eat at separate
table: grandfather clock and chairs: portraits of past
Shakers on wall: chalkboard with daily psalm: exterior
meeting house with date 1794 on wall: interior meeting
house: archive mono still of meeting house: roundstone
barn in former Shaker settlement, Massachusetts: various
pieces of crafted furniture in Sabbathday Lake museum:
monument in cemetery: tree in field: community buildings:
SOURCE: WTN
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Shakers | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Shakers
00:01:27 1 History
00:01:36 1.1 Origins
00:03:45 1.2 Mother Ann Lee
00:05:49 1.3 Community growth
00:06:28 1.4 Joseph Meacham and communalism
00:07:42 1.5 Lucy Wright and westward expansion
00:09:05 1.6 Era of Manifestations
00:10:52 1.7 American Civil War period
00:11:50 1.8 20th century to the present
00:13:37 2 Leadership
00:14:45 3 Theology
00:14:54 3.1 Dualism
00:15:19 3.2 First and second coming
00:15:52 3.3 Ethics
00:16:39 3.4 Celibacy and children
00:17:28 3.5 Gender roles
00:18:40 3.6 Worship
00:19:23 4 Shaker communities
00:20:17 5 Economics
00:23:30 6 Architecture and furnishings
00:25:15 7 Culture
00:25:23 7.1 Artifacts
00:26:15 7.2 Music
00:30:26 7.3 Works inspired by Shaker culture
00:33:03 8 Education
00:33:58 9 Modern-day Shakers
00:36:17 10 See also
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The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, is a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded in the 18th century in England. They were initially known as Shaking Quakers because of their ecstatic behavior during worship services. As early as 1747, women assumed leadership roles within the sect, notably Jane Wardley, Mother Ann Lee, and Mother Lucy Wright. Shakers settled in colonial America, with initial settlements in New Lebanon, New York (called Mount Lebanon after 1861). They practice a celibate and communal lifestyle, pacifism, and their model of equality of the sexes, which they institutionalized in their society in the 1780s. They are also known for their simple living, architecture, and furniture.
During the mid-19th century, an Era of Manifestations resulted in a period of dances, gift drawings, and gift songs inspired by spiritual revelations. At its peak in the mid-19th century, there were 6,000 Shaker believers. By 1920, there were only 12 Shaker communities remaining in the United States. At the present time, there is only one active Shaker village, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, which is located in Maine. Their celibacy combined with external and internal societal changes resulted in the thinning of the Shaker community, and consequently many of the other Shaker settlements are now village museums.
Christmas Eve 1970 | Different U.S.A. Customs | WTIC Radio | Hartford, CT | Dick Bertel
From New England to North Carolina, Dick Bertel and his children are taken on a tour of “many different and beautiful” Christmas celebrations along the eastern United States by humorist Bill Stockdale (1918-2009), a motion picture photographer and lecturer who writes columns for the travel sections of “The New York Times,” “The Boston Globe,” and “The Worcester Telegram.” (In 2004, he will be awarded a lifetime achievement award by the Travel Adventure Cinema Society.)
• The Moravian people of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania who hang handmade twenty-six-point stars and display a putz which tells the complete Christmas story, far beyond the manger scene depicted in a traditional crèche
• The Swedish traditions observed in Worcester, Massachusetts at the Hartford Road home of Clarence (1905-2000) and Ingrid (1916-1994) Flodine which include serving seven kinds of cookies (with specific mention of the pepparkakor), signage wishing “God Helg,” and the observance of St. Lucia’s Day
• Experiencing a Finnish bath (i.e., a sauna) at the Canterbury, Connecticut home of Otto (1901-1980) and Helmi (1902-1995) Ruuskanen where coffee cake, prune tarts, and ham are served along with a dinner of lipeäkala (whitefish treated with lye) with white sauce, cold boiled potatoes, fruit soup, and lingonberry relish
• The Syrian traditions of baking ma’amoul, Middle Eastern shortbread cookies, and baklava as demonstrated in a film of a Mrs. Haddad in Willimantic, Connecticut
• A fireworks celebration in Williamsburg, Virginia to commemorate the 1842 introduction of the Christmas tree to the United States by Charles Minnigerode (1814-1894), a German dissident who emigrated to America in 1839 and taught Latin and Greek at the College of William & Mary before being ordained in 1847 as an Episcopal priest
• The making of peppermint patties at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine by Sister Mildred Barker (1897-1990) who will be best remembered for her efforts to preserve Shaker musical traditions
While joking about celebrating Christmas at his home with Afghani yak flambée and marinated elephant trunk, Stockdale reminisces about sharing his honeymoon with his wife Connie (1923-2014) by walking 3,525 miles “across America afoot” from his native Putnam, Connecticut to Los Angeles, California with their dog, a boxer named “Taj Mahal,” and a miniature covered wagon from September 1949 to March 1950. Over their sixty years of marriage, together Connie and Bill will visit more than sixty-five countries on six different continents and share their experiences with public presentations of their travelogues.
A holiday tradition on WTIC Radio in Hartford, Connecticut from 1962 to 1976, Dick Bertel would host a program of Christmas music at 8:00 p.m. each Christmas Eve. 1964 was the first year that he included his kids in the show.
This episode was broadcast on Thursday, December 24, 1970. The interview was conducted at WTIC's Broadcast House studios on Constitution Plaza in downtown Hartford where the show was mixed and produced by engineer Bob Scherago. Bertel’s dialogue with his children Darcy, Jimmy, and Susan was recorded at their home on Randy Lane in Wethersfield, Connecticut.
This edition was sponsored by the Hartford Insurance Group and the Charter Oak Bank and Trust Company. The president and founder of the bank, William E. Budds (1920-2001), offers yuletide greetings.
Songs
• “Good Christian Men, Rejoice” (opening and closing theme) by Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra from their 1959 album “Music for a Merry Christmas”
• “Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella” by Percy Faith and his Orchestra from their 1954 album “Hallelujah!”
• “Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane),” recorded by Doris Day in 1949 and selected from the 1954 album “First Christmas Record for Children,” a compilation of music by various artists
• “Silent Night, Holy Night” from the 1961 album “A Music Box Christmas” from the music box collection of Rita Ford
• “Away in a Manger” by an unknown artist
• “The Star of Bethlehem” by an unknown orchestra
• “Deck the Halls” by an unknown artist
• “Winter Wonderland” from “Snowfall: The Tony Bennett Christmas Album,” 1968
• “Santa Claus is Coming to Town,” recorded by Bob Hannon in 1954, also from “First Christmas Record for Children”
• “I’ll be Home for Christmas” by an unknown artist
• “O Christmas Tree” by an unknown jazz ensemble
• “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers” by the Boston Pops Orchestra as conducted by Arthur Fiedler from the 1959 album “Pops Christmas Party”
NYCB X SPAC ALBANY | Shaker Heritage Society pt. 2 of 2
NYCB X SPAC ALBANY | Shaker Heritage Society pt. 2 of 2
New York City Ballet company dancers returned to Shaker Heritage Society in Albany for the third video of our NYCB X SPAC series! Where will we find them tomorrow? #NYCBxSPAC #ShakerHeritageSociety #part1
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