George Rapp's daughter and others lived for a time at the Shaker settlement in West Union, Indiana, where the Shakers helped a number of Harmonites learn the English language.

The Shakers built more than twenty settlements that attracted at least 20, 000 converts over the next century.

New Shaker communities formed in the 1780s and 1790s included Hancock and West Pittsfield, Massachusetts ; Harvard, Massachusetts ; East Canterbury, New Hampshire ( or Shaker Village ); Shirley, Massachusetts ; Enfield, Connecticut ( then also known as Shaker Station ); Enfield, New Hampshire ; (" Chosen Vale "), at Tyringham, Massachusetts ; New Gloucester, Maine ( since 1890: " Sabbathday Lake "); and Alfred, Maine, where, more than anywhere else among the Shakers, spiritualistic healing of the sick was practiced.

Around the time of the American Civil War, the Shakers at Mount Lebanon, New York, increased their production and marketing of Shaker chairs.

Two widely distributed commercial recordings by The Boston Camerata, " Simple Gifts " ( 1995 ) and " The Golden Harvest " ( 2000 ), were recorded at the Shaker community of Sabbathday Lake, Maine, with active cooperation from the surviving Shakers, whose singing can be heard at several points on both recordings.

Membership in the Shakers dwindled in the late 19th century for several reasons: people were attracted to cities and away from the farms ; Shaker products could not compete with mass-produced products that became available at a much lower cost ; and Shakers could not have children, so adoption was a major source of new members.

* Work for the Shakers begins at 8: 30.

To preserve their legacy as well as their idyllic lakeside property at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, Maine, the Shakers announced in October 2005 that they had entered into a trust with the state of Maine and several conservation groups.

* Shakers Collection ( MS-003 ) at Dayton Metro Library

Today, only one village remains in the control of the last Shakers, located at Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester, Maine.

Similar disparaging terms directed at outspoken Christians but later embraced by them include Jesus freaks or, from former centuries, Methodists, Quakers, and Shakers.

On its first day of release, the album entered Amazon ’ s Movers And Shakers index, nestling at No. 12 at the end of the day.

Emerging at the same time as Los Shakers they forged their own identity with very little Western influence.

These include Amish ; Old Order, Conservative, Conservative Mennonites, and Old Colony Mennonites ; Old German Baptist Brethren ; the Hutterites ; and Old Order River Brethren ; and at one time Quakers, the Brethren in Christ ( BIC ), and Shakers, Dunkards.

Other major orchestra works during this period include the Rhapsody for Violin and Orchestra, Third Piano Concerto written for pianist Garrick Ohlsson ; Movers and Shakers the first work commissioned by the Cleveland Orchestra for music director Christoph von Dohnányi, Bamboula Squared for computer generated sound and orchestra ( inspired by his work at Bell Labs ), and The Golden Dance.

In a 1969 installment of " The Garbage Truck ", a column King wrote for the University of Maine at Orono's campus newspaper, King foreshadowed the coming of < nowiki >'</ nowiki > Salem's Lot by writing: " In the early 1800s a whole sect of Shakers, a rather strange, religious persuasion at best, disappeared from their village ( Jeremiah's Lot ) in Vermont.

In 1776 Hocknell leased land at Niskayuna, in the township of Watervliet, near Albany, and the Shakers settled there, where a unique community life began to develop and thrive.

However, the Shakers were sometimes met by violent mobs, such as in Shirley, Massachusetts, and Ann Lee suffered violence at their hands more than once.

With less than a year of schooling and following in a wake of failures, both of his own and of others, Borden was inspired by the vacuum pan he had seen being used by Shakers to condense fruit juice and was at last able to reduce milk without scorching or curdling it.

After Richie Barker took over as caretaker manager on 1 April 2011, he guided the side to promotion to League One with a stunning run of six consecutive wins, culminating in a thrilling 3 – 2 victory in which Ryan Lowe scored the 87th minute winner to send the Shakers ( Bury FC ) up at league leaders and ultimate champions Chesterfield.

Lucy Wright, the head of the Shakers ' parent Ministry at New Lebanon, New York, decided to send missionaries west.

Born in Louisiana and raised in Florida, Lincks was inspired to write the play after visiting the Pleasant Hills Shaker village in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, a restored community that the Shakers occupied for more than a century, before abandoning it in 1927 because of the inability of the sect to attract new converts.

The Pleasant Hill Shakers raised broom corn and made flat brooms so good that they sold for more than " ordinary " brooms.

The Pleasant Hill Shakers were also known for their labor-saving engineering accomplishments.

Even before the American Civil War began, the Pleasant Hill Shakers ran into controversy.

At the end of the nineteenth-century, however, Shakers adopted some aspects of Victorian decor, such as ornate carved furniture, patterned linoleum, and cabbage-rose wallpaper.

Shakers did not practice procreation themselves.

Indian Shakers continue to practice on the Northwest Coast in Washington, Oregon, California, and British Columbia.

The Shakers is a religious sect founded in eighteenth-century England upon the teachings of Ann Lee.

Shakers today are most known for their cultural contributions ( especially style of music and furniture ). The Shakers composed thousands of songs, and also created many dances ; both were an important part of the Shaker worship services.

The religious communal society known as the Shakers emigrated from England during the 18th century and developed their own folk dance style.

These groups included the Shakers, the Harmony Society and the Ephrata Cloister.

A stricter view is held by the Shakers, who prohibit marriage ( and sexual intercourse under any circumstances ) as a violation of chastity.

* 1736 – Ann Lee, American founder of Shakers ( d. 1784 )

He founded beat band The Moans in 1964, which would later become Long Tall Ernie and the Shakers.

The Society also had visitors from another communal religious society, the Shakers.

In 1816 meetings between the Shakers and Harmonists considered a possible union of the two societies, but religious differences between the two groups halted the union.

Among the best-known of these utopian societies were the Shakers, which originated in England in the 18th century but moved to America shortly afterward.

The Shakers, on the other hand, impose chastity in the form of celibacy for all members, even forgoing procreation such as the case with the castration cult.

This desire to restore a purer form of Christianity without an elaborate hierarchy contributed to the development of many groups during the Second Great Awakening, including the Mormons, Baptists and Shakers.

The United Society of Believers in Christ ’ s Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, is a religious sect originally thought to be a development of the Religious Society of Friends.

Founded upon the teachings of Ann Lee, Shakers today are mostly known for their cultural contributions ( especially their style of music and furniture ), and their model of equality of the sexes, which they institutionalized in their society in the 1780s.

The Shakers were one of a few religious groups that formed in eighteenth-century England.

One of the most important of these new movements was the United Society of Believers in Christ ’ s Second Appearing ( USBCSA ), or the Shakers.

Her small community was soon known for its enthusiastic worship given to “ singing and dancing, shaking and shouting, speaking with new tongues and prophesying, with all those various gifts of the Holy Ghost known in the primitive church .” The Shakers, as they were called, saw themselves as the avant garde of the kingdom of God, preparing the way for the new era when God ’ s will was done on earth.

Thriving on the religious enthusiasm of the first and second Great Awakenings, the Shakers declared their messianic, communitarian message with significant response.

One early convert observed: “ The wisdom of their instructions, the purity of their doctrine, their Christ-like deportment, and the simplicity of their manners, all appeared truly apostolical .” The Shakers represent a small but important Utopian response to the gospel.

Strict believers in celibacy, Shakers acquired their members through conversion, indenturing children, and adoption of orphans.

Some children, such as Isaac N. Youngs, came to the Shakers when their parents joined, then grew up to become faithful members as adults.