June Sprigg is a graduate of Lafayette College and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. From 1977 to 1982 and 1986 to 1994 she was Curator of Collections at the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She has guest-curated major exhibitions of Shaker design at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo. She is a freelance writer and adjunct instructor of history at Berkshire Community College. Her many publications includeBy Shaker Hands(1975),Domestick Beings(1984),Inner Light: The Shaker Legacy(1985), andShaker Built(1994). She lives in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. From the Hardcover edition.