The New York Times

There Are Only Two Shakers Left. They’ve Still Got Utopia in Their Sights.

Their numbers have dwindled, but the remaining members are imagining what comes next. Brother Arnold Hadd of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker village in Maine.Credit...Lucas Foglia for The New York Times ...
National Catholic Reporter

The celibate, dancing Shakers were once seen as a threat to society — 250 years later, they're part of the sound of America

The trailer for the film "The Testament of Ann Lee" is riveting and unsettling — just as the celibate Shakers were to the ...
Berkshire Eagle

Bringing Shaker images to light again

NEW LEBANON, N.Y. -- The Shaker village at Mount Lebanon was once the center of the Shaker movement. It held the Central Ministry of the Shakers for 150 years. At its largest, it housed more than 600 ...
Courthouse News Service

Shaker faith endures in rural Maine

Hundreds of visitors toured Shaker Village and its historic barn in New Gloucester, Maine, on Sunday during Open Farm Day. (Clarke Canfield/Courthouse News) NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (CN) — At its peak ...
Yahoo

The celibate, dancing Shakers were once seen as a threat to society – 250 years later, they’re part of the sound of America

In the Shakers' early years, dance was one of the most distinct aspects of the Christian group's worship. Bettmann via Getty Images Director Mona Fastvold’s new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” ...