Publications
American Communal Societies Quarterly, Volume 6, no. 2 - April 2012
April 1, 2012
Tags American Communal Societies Quarterly
- From the Editor
- Daniel Pierce Thompson and “The Shaker Lovers”: Portraying the Shakers in Fiction and on the Stage By Brian L. Bixby and Jill Mudgett
- “The mighty hand of overruling providence”: The Shaker Claim to America By Jane F. Crosthwaite
- A Treasury of Shaker Ephemera Rediscovered at the Western Reserve Historical Society By Christian Goodwillie
Front cover illustration: Two copies of a handbill announcing the new postal address for Mount Lebanon. To avoid confusion with the town of New Lebanon, the Shaker community was assigned its own post office with a distinct name. These handbills were found at the Western Reserve Historical Society, Shaker Collection. For more information see the article beginning on page 112.
