The historic milestone will be marked with a kind of Shakerpalooza as more than 100 Shaker scholars, collectors and admirers will gather at the Shaker Historical Society on Saturday. Members of the ...

A critically acclaimed film and major museum survey find more in the history and culture of the Shakers than benches, brooms ...

In the trailer for The Testament of Ann Lee—the Amanda Seyfried drama in theaters now—you’ll see much of what you might expect from a film about early American religion. There’s spirited devotional ...

For Ann Lee, this passage and others in the Bible were signs. They were signs that Christians who wanted to withdraw from " the world" into their own communities could not only sing praises and thanks ...

Hundreds of visitors toured Shaker Village and its historic barn in New Gloucester, Maine, on Sunday during Open Farm Day. (Clarke Canfield/Courthouse News) NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (CN) — At its peak ...

It is the second half of the 19th century, and there were great changes for the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing. If you are not familiar with that name, you might be more ...

A new film, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” is shining a spotlight on the religious group that established two villages in New Hampshire A new film playing in theaters now, “The Testament of Ann Lee,” is ...

There’s something in Shaker history that not many people know about. It’s not a secret, per say; it’s more of an unusual societal quirk buried deep within personal journals and rarely documented. But ...

A historical quest that began with small-scale antique collecting and "just kept on expanding" has made Edward Deming Andrews, Berkshire native and summer resident, into perhaps the world's foremost ...

Gay blades from Pittsfield, Mass., riding past the big brick house a century ago, might have smiled to hear them singing: Oh, it is by holy living That we gain an entrance there; For communion with ...