The enduring influence of the egalitarian religious sect known as the Shakers is on full view at Vitra Design Museum. Featuring examples of the American community’s minimalist d ...

When the Shakers arrived in New York City in 1774, their particular blend of English heritage, industriousness, and devout Christian worship immediately branded the religious sect as outsiders.

Sabbathday Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine used to be a thriving community. Denise - Flickr/Creative Commons. Long ago, a small radical Christian sect left England in search of religious ...

One of the swankiest suburbs of Cleveland, Ohio, is Shaker Heights, and it’s not named for any kind of food shaker or for a Mister Shaker. Nor are Shakertown, Kentucky; Hancock Shaker Village in ...

The Hancock Shaker Village Board of Trustees have picked Jennifer Trainer Thompson’s successor to lead the Pittsfield, Massachusetts museum. Nathaniel Silver, currently the Curator of the ...

Religion: The Shakers. 4 minute read. ... Nineteen Shaker communities were founded, but the sect was doomed—partly by the growth of outside social services that drastically cut down the numbers ...

South Union Shaker Village, located in Auburn, Kentucky, offers visitors a glimpse into the history of the Shaker community that thrived there from 1807-1922. The Shakers, a religious sect, built ...

In September 2022, Nathaniel Silver left his job at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston to take over as leader of the historic campus and farm that once housed a utopian Christian sect.

Shaker boxes are the original Tupperware basically. - Interesting. - Yeah. The history of it is the Shakers were a religious sect, many, ...

It also houses the remains of the Shaker religious sect, for which the suburb is named. A local Landmark and contributing site in the Shaker Village National Register Historic District, ...

The spare, unadorned pieces made by the 18th-century religious sect inspire countless contemporary makers in every generation. A new exhibition explores what makes them so curiously influential ...