Publications
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- From the Editor
- “We Live at a Great Distance from the Church”: Cartographic Strategies of the Shakers, 1805-1835 by Carol Medlicott
- The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers Part One: “From a Spirit of Detraction and Slander” by Christian Goodwillie
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Richard W. Couper Press Order Form
Front cover illustration: “A General View of our Journey and of Several States” map from the Youngs/Kendall collection. See the article by Carol Medlicott. From the Library of Congress, Geography and Maps Division.
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- From the Editor
- The History of the Shaker Gathering Order by Stephen J. Paterwic
- The Mob at Enfield
- Introduction by Elizabeth De Wolfe
- A Statement Concerning the Mob at Enfield
- The Shakers of Canterbury: Their Agriculture and Their Machinery by Elizabeth Gleason Bervy
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
- News from Richard W. Couper Press
Front cover illustration: House of David Jellies and Jams [Product label]. 1950s? For more House of David ephemera recently acquired by Hamilton College Library, see p. 108-18.
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American Communal Societies Series, no. 2. 456 pages with 45 b/w illustrations, 2010.
ISBN: 978-0-9796448-5-6 ($35)
This is a companion volume to her earlier work published by the Couper Press in 2007, which covered 1788-1849. This volume is a compilation of eighty-five accounts written by visitors to four Shaker villages. These two volumes will have enduring value for historians of the Shakers and American culture in general. -
- From the Editor
- Strangers Along the Trail: Peoria’s Shaker Apostates
- Enter the World by Patricia L. Goitein
- Benn Pitman’s “Visit to the Shaker Settlement —Whitewater Village, O.”
- Introduction by David D. Newell
- Text
- “Cummings and Goings”: The Impact of Shakerism on the Family of Edward T. Cummings by Mary Ann Haagen
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Visiting the Shakers, 1850-1899 Goes to Press
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: The Ballance Family, ca. 1852, oil on canvas, by James Wilkins in Peoria. Courtesy of the Illinois State Museum. Depicted are Charles and Julia Ballance and seven of their children. Charles apostatized from Pleasant Hill Shaker community and settled in Peoria, Illinois. See the article by Patricia Goitein.
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Shaker Studies, no. 2. 105 pages, 2010.
ISBN: 978-0-9796448-6-3 ($10)
This work traces the spiritual journey and accomplishments of Aquila Massie Bolton who had joined the Shakers at Union Village, Ohio after twenty-five years of spiritual seeking. His poetry praised Shakerism, but in time, he challenged the beliefs of Shaker leaders, which inevitably led to controversy and his apostasy. Soule's careful analysis sheds light on the struggles of Bolton to find a spiritual home and on how the Shakers responded to the challenges he raised to their theology and leadership.Topic -
- From the Editor
- Shaker Seminar 2009: Enfield and Canterbury, N.H. by Christian Goodwillie
- Shaker Messages from Mary Magdalene and John Calvin by Jane F. Crosthwaite
- Daughter of the Shakers: The Story of Eleanor Brooks Fairs by Johanne Grewell
- Birth, Life, and Death of Olive Branch, 1896-1924 by Rev. Vernon Squire
- Remembering Gus Kermes by Sandra A. Soule
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: This marvelous, newly discovered caricature is the work of an artist named Korman. It is thought to have been drawn for an as-yet-unidentified New England newspaper between 1910 and 1921. Illustrated are Hancock Shakers Alexander and Ritcho Pettiff, Gladys Smith, and Trustee Frances Hall. The Pettiffs (also spelled Pettit, or as shown in the drawing, Petete) were part of a contingent of Bulgarians who came to live with the Hancock Shakers beginning in August 1900. Ritcho arrived at Hancock on November 17, 1905, at the age of fifty-nine. Alexander arrived on January 26, 1910, at the age of sixteen. Gladys Smith left the community on May 28, 1921, at the age of twenty-four. Soon thereafter, in 1922, young Alexander Pettit left to attend an auto show, and he never returned. Frances Hall eventually became first eldress in the Central Ministry and died at Hancock on March 10, 1957.
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- From the Editor
- Conflict and Tribulation on the Frontier: The West Union Shakers and Their Retreat by Carol Medlicott
- William Adee Whitehead’s Visit to the Shakers
- Introduction by Elizabeth and Scott De Wolfe
- Reprint of Text
- Letter from Richard McNemar
- Introduction by Christian Goodwillie
- Reprint of Text
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- A New Publication for the Couper Press
- Review of Robert White Jr.: “Spreading the Light of the Gospel.” By Stephen J. Paterwic
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Ambrotype image of an unidentified Shaker sister. 1850s? 9.3 x 8 cm. Among the earliest known images of a Shaker, this sixth-plate ambrotype was created by a photographer named Campbell. The frame is stamped 1854. Intriguingly, the image has hints of color. Our initial research identified two photographers named Campbell working in the United States in the 1850s, one in Jersey City, N. J., and the other in Dayton, Ohio. Tantilizingly, James Campbell of Dayton published three articles during 1853 on the novel process of heliochromy, or adding color to wet collodion process images. Could this image be that of a Watervliet, Ohio, Shaker sister? Research is ongoing in an attempt to answer that question.
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- From the Editor
- Watervliet Shakers through the Eyes of Oneida
- Perfectionists, 1863-1875 by Anthony Wonderley
- Heaven is a Hollow Earth: The Shaker-Koreshan Connection by Christian Goodwillie
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: A composite image taken from the front and back covers of Cellular Cosmogony (Chicago: Guiding Star Publishing House, 1899). This work is the major theological and scientific statement of Koreshan Unity.
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Shaker Studies, no. 1. 79 pages with 32 black and white illustrations, 2009.
ISBN: 978-0-9796448-4-9 ($9)
In this work Sandra Soule provides a detailed examination of the role Robert White Jr. played in spreading and defending the Shaker message. His activities ranged from persuading the Shaker leadership to publish certain important works, to funding their publication, and actively taking part in their distribution. Although White toiled tirelessly to advance the cause of Shakerism in the mid-nineteenth century, little has been written about him and his endeavors in the area of Shaker publication. Soule fills that void with her meticulous research based on Shaker manuscript records.Topic -
- From the Editor
- Celebrating and Sacralizing Violence: Testimonies Concerning Ann Lee and the Early Shakers by Stephen J. Stein
- “Rather Than Ever Milk Again”: Shaker Sisters’ Refusal to Milk at Mount Lebanon and Watervliet — 1873-1877 13 by Lauren A. Stiles
- The Abuse of Spirit Messages during the Shaker Era of Manifestations: “A hard time of it in this hurrycane of gifts, to know what is revelation and what is not” by Glendyne Wergland
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Christian Goodwillie Appointed Curator
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Chamberlin, Solomon. A Sketch of the Experience of Solomon Chamberlin, To Which is Added a Remarkable Revelation, or Trance of His Father-In-Law Philip Haskins: How His Soul Actually Left His Body and Was Guided by a Holy Angel to Eternal Day. Lyons, N.Y., 1829. 12 p. 18.4 cm. See page 41 for more information.
