The Kentucky Shakers / Julia Neal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Neal, Julia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kentucky--Church history.

Kentucky.

Shakers--Kentucky--History.

Shakers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 they left that J

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Coming to the Western Country; 2 Putting Their Hands to Work; 3 Giving Their Hearts to God; 4 Bearing a Sound, Good Cross; Photo Section; 5 The Ending of Shakerism in Kentucky; Bibliographical Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Y

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-3168-5

0-8131-0897-7

0-8131-4867-7

OCLC:

557833711