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Paperback. BIC Classification: HRA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
In 1805, at the height of the period of early religious excitement in Kentucky, three members of the Shaker community in New Lebanon, New York, came to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to recruit converts. Soon there were little communities of Believers at Pleasant Hill in Mercer County and at South Union in Logan County. These settlements survived into the twentieth century as centers of worship and communal life; the buildings the Shakers erected here and many of their tools and artifacts remain to delight the eye today. But it is the life of the Shakers as well as the monuments ... Read more
In 1805, at the height of the period of early religious excitement in Kentucky, three members of the Shaker community in New Lebanon, New York, came to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to recruit converts. Soon there were little communities of Believers at Pleasant Hill in Mercer County and at South Union in Logan County. These settlements survived into the twentieth century as centers of worship and communal life; the buildings the Shakers erected here and many of their tools and artifacts remain to delight the eye today. But it is the life of the Shakers as well as the monuments ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University Press of Kentucky United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Lexington, United States
ISBN
9780813108971
SKU
V9780813108971
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Ref
99-28
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