Publications
Visiting the Shakers, 1850-1899: Watervliet, Hancock, Tyringham, New Lebanon
By Glendyne R. Wergland
January 1, 2010
Tags American Communal Societies Series Shaker Studies
American Communal Societies Series, no. 2. 456 pages with 45 b/w illustrations, 2010.
ISBN: 978-0-9796448-5-6 ($35)
This is a companion volume to her earlier work published by the Couper Press in 2007, which covered 1788-1849. This volume is a compilation of eighty-five accounts written by visitors to four Shaker villages. These two volumes will have enduring value for historians of the Shakers and American culture in general.
