The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon To The World

This book presents the elegantly austere and simply styled objects of the Shakers in the context of their faith and community at Mount Lebanon, N.Y., the spiritual and administrative center of the Shaker world.

Outstanding examples of furniture, textiles, tools, and other objects-drawn primarily from the collection of Shaker Museum bring the world of the Shakers to life. The book also explores the material culture of Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester, Maine, the last active Shaker community, and how this group of Shakers continued to thrive while other Shaker communities elsewhere gradually disappeared.