The Shakers’ worship services were such a popular draw for the public in the 1820s that the Mount Lebanon Shakers began to plan for a larger meetinghouse in December, 1821. It took nearly two and a half years to get the building ready for its dedication on June 4,...

In April, 2016, Shaker Museum presented its inaugural blog post, about the manufacturing of candied flagroot by the Shakers at Canterbury, New Hampshire. To ease the annual work of slicing hundreds of pounds of flagroot, they had repurposed an old sewing machine to slice...