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Thoughts on Barbara Heinemann Landmann
No full textfocusing more attention on Barbara Heinemann Landmann. Why? I think it’s because, when we look at the total number of translated testimonies, we find we have fewer of her testimonies translated than from any one of the longer-serving Werkzeuge. This despite her being absolutely vital to this Community both at the time of its Re-awakening in 1817 and now again in the present
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No full textBack cover illustration: BIGOTRY. Ear Am 20, Book Collection, xsHarry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austi
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No full textFront cover illustration: The Qui Vive Quartette (sisters Jennie Fish, Jessie Evans, Josephine Wilson, and Helena Sarle) often performed at venues across the region. Courtesy of Canterbury Shaker Village
Alpha and Omega: The 1804 Shaker Church of Christ Missionary Letter and Richard McNemar’s 1838 Draft of an Answer
No full textShaker Richard McNemar functioned as a “minuteman” for the Shaker cause west of the Appalachians. From the moment of his conversion in 1805, McNemar turned his time and talents fully to the promotion and defense of Shakerism. Following a series of unfortunate developments in the 1830s—the eroding infiltration of Swedenborgianism, defalcation of Union Village trustees, and incompetent leadership in the Ohio Shaker Ministry—McNemar was faced with the sad reality of the state of the western Shaker communities.
McNemar’s 1838 “Draft of an Answer to the foregoing letter from the church,” provides his candid assessment of the successes, and failures, of the western Shaker converts in managing their own affairs. The draft is slyly framed as an apologetic defense for the management of the western communities, specifically Union Village, in the face of the multiple failures. McNemar writes from a place of detached elevation, as a participant, but also somehow above the fray and privileged to know the real situations of the western communities, to which he was repeatedly dispatched as a problem solver. However, the Draft evidences McNemar’s unwillingness to step down from his privileged position willingly and with grace
“God loves such a building”: Three Diagrammatic Shaker Drawings at Library of Congress
No full textStored in a large folder containing Maine Shaker Joshua Bussell\u27s 1845 map titled “A plan of Alfred, Maine” at the Library of Congress is a drawing of three separate highly detailed ink and watercolor renderings of Shaker buildings. This trio of drawings is arresting for the vivid colors, assertive lines, and the artist’s meticulous attention to detail. The composition is an enigma among all known Shaker drawings. Neither map nor spirit drawing, architectural plan nor fanciful depiction, the purpose of this set is mysterious. The artist neither identified the buildings nor signed his/ her work. But the trio invites further examination, and some focused effort yields several insights
Document: BIGOTRY.
No full textPoem written at Pleasant Hill c. 1827 probably written by James Gass. Copy of a broadside found in a family Bible owned by William Black. Black is related to James Gass. On the back of the broadside, written in ink, is ‘James Gass Richmond Ky