This summer Shaker Museum is presenting a pop-up exhibition, “Shakers: In Community,” in the town of Chatham, New York. The exhibition stresses the efforts the Shakers made to be inclusive and make members feel as though they were all equally necessary cogs in the gears of S...

This July, Shaker Museum celebrates its 70th anniversary. The Museum and much of the collection exists today because of the vision and efforts of founder John S. Williams, but credit is also due to the Shakers, who came to like and trust Williams but were also deeply invested...