The Four Seasons of Shaker Life: An Intimate Portrait of the Community at Sabbathday Lake (Last Shaker Community)

by Gerard C. Wertkin

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An examination of the history and way of life of the Shakers as shown through a study of the tiny community that still exists in Maine.

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IN MEMORY OF BROTHER THEODORE E. JOHNSON (1931-1986)

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[Author's Preface] My journey along the pleasant paths and byways of Shaker Village began one summer afternoon in 1966 in an appropriately simple manner, without any hint of what I would find.

[A Word About the Photographs] During the American Food Festival on Shaker cooking at the Vista International Hotel in New York City, I first met Sister Frances A. Carr, the kitchen deaconess of the Sabbathday Lake Community.

From a vantage point high on a gently sloping hill, standing amid rows of apple trees, you can see much of the Shaker Village and, beyond it, the lake from which it takes its name.

[Other Seasons, Other Years: An Afterword] Near the end of the nineteenth century Sister Aurelia Mace recorded her observations about the state of the community.

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