Simple Gifts Lessons in Living from a Shaker Village

Name: Simple Gifts Lessons in Living from a Shaker Village
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ISBN: 9780375704321

ISBN-10: 0375704329

ISBN-13: 9780375704321

Edition: N/A

Authors: June Sprigg

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In Simple Gifts, June Sprigg tells the story of one of America's last Shaker communities--Canterbury Shaker Village, in Canterbury, New Hampshire--during its twilight years, and of its seven remarkable "survivor" women, who were among the last representatives of our longest-lived and best-known communal utopian society. As a college student Sprigg spent a summer among them, and here she gracefully interweaves the narrative of their lives with the broader history of Shakers in America as she shows us how her experiences there affected her own life and opened the door to her creativity. Gleaning information from old records and journals that she pored over that summer and later, Sprigg…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/7/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.99" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 0.594
Language: English