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Simple Gifts: Lessons in Living from a Shaker Village Paperback - 1999
by June Sprigg
Spending the summer of 1972 in one of America's last Shaker communities, Spring chronicles the daily life of the village and shows how to simplify life and find renewal through work and friendships. 9 illustrations.
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I arrived at Canterbury Shaker Village, about twelve miles north of Concord, New Hamsphire, in late afternoon at the end of May 1972, with Mom and Grandma in the old blue Chevy station wagon.
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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 brings to life the generations of Canterbury Shakers from the eighteenth century to the present--their customs, their architecture, their spirituality. She also explores the social and cultural forces and the internal imperatives and tensions that caused membership to decrease, all of which, by 1972, brought the community to crisis.
Chronicling the daily life of the village as she found it, Sprigg uncovers the affirming energies of the Shakers--the prominence of mutual love and respect, the devoted tradition of mothering surrogate children, and, above all, the surviving women's spirited eccentricities. She reveals the Shakers as individuals--their personal histories, their wildly different beginnings, what they gave up to join the Shaker community, and, more important, what they gained.
Through her lively text and drawings and her intimate connection with the community, Sprigg brings us close to its people with a book that both enlightens and inspires.
Gleaning information from old records and journals that she pored over that summer and later, Sprigg brings to life the generations of Canterbury Shakers from the eighteenth century to the present--their customs, their architecture, their spirituality. She also explores the social and cultural forces and the internal imperatives and tensions that caused membership to decrease, all of which, by 1972, brought the community to crisis.
Chronicling the daily life of the village as she found it, Sprigg uncovers the affirming energies of the Shakers--the prominence of mutual love and respect, the devoted tradition of mothering surrogate children, and, above all, the surviving women's spirited eccentricities. She reveals the Shakers as individuals--their personal histories, their wildly different beginnings, what they gave up to join the Shaker community, and, more important, what they gained.
Through her lively text and drawings and her intimate connection with the community, Sprigg brings us close to its people with a book that both enlightens and inspires.
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- Title Simple Gifts: Lessons in Living from a Shaker Village
- Author June Sprigg
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st Vintage Book
- Pages 240
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Knopf Publishing Group, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date June 7, 1999
- ISBN 9780375704321 / 0375704329
- Weight 0.59 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 7.52 x 5.58 x 0.67 in (19.10 x 14.17 x 1.70 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1970's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: New England
- Cultural Region: Northeast U.S.
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Geographic Orientation: Massachusetts
- Geographic Orientation: New Hampshire
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Sprigg, June - Childhood and youth, Shakers - New Hampshire - Canterbury
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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- Ingram Advance, 06/01/1999, Page 32
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