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Shaker Village - May 2011
This bucolic setting is the last remaining Shaker community in the United States. They are located near the town of Gray in Maine. The are open daily for tours starting Memorial Day. Check it out when you are in Maine!
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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:
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Shakers | Wikipedia audio article
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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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- Socrates
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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.
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