The Shaker Museum recently acquired a carte-de-visite of Elder Frederick Evans. Taken in London, it may well be the only 19th century photograph of a Shaker outside the United States. This is the story of how he ended up there.  Carte-de Visite, Elder Frederick W. Evans...

In this time of pandemic and all the distress and hardship it entails, it can be helpful to consider how the Shakers of Mount Lebanon and other communities in the region might have responded. The Shakers, in fashioning their communities as “heaven on earth,” sought to be...