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Simple gifts : a memoir of a Shaker village / by June Sprigg ; with illustrations by the author.
Van Pelt Library BX9768.C3 S67 1998
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sprigg, June.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sprigg, June.
- Shakers--New Hampshire--Canterbury.
- Shakers.
- Sprigg, June--Childhood and youth.
- Canterbury (N.H.)--Biography.
- Canterbury (N.H.).
- New Hampshire--Canterbury.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 227 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1998.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-227).
- ISBN:
- 0679455043
- OCLC:
- 38010714
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