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From a spirit communication, an iconic logo emerges: How a Shaker gift drawing inspired CBS
For those of us who have come to know and admire the Shakers, the moment when Anthony McGill’s clarinet opened the first discernible strains of Simple Gifts at President Barack Obama’s first inauguration, there was a moment of pleasant recognition. As he was joined by Y...
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"[T]he first Harvesting machine ever used in the township, and we have heard, the first one in Columbia Co. N. Y.”
Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon recently received a small collection of photographs made in and around the town of New Lebanon, New York by an as yet unidentified photographer. Among the photographs is a print of Brother Levi Shaw (1819-1908) standing behind a McCormick binder...
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