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    • From the Editor
    • Our Thriving Neighbors. A Shaker Elder Tells of the Success of His Colony Adjoining St. Cloud. By Ezra J. Stewart 
    • Shaker Testimony. 
    • Pineapples in Florida. The Shakers Have Made a Great Success with This Delicious Fruit. By Ezra J. Stewart
    • Banana Culture. The Splendid Fruit Grows Naturally in Florida–How to Cultivate.
    • St. Cloud. Plat of the Surveys and Lines for the Town and Farming Tracts.
    • The Five-Acre Tracts.
    • The Subdivision.
    • Stop the Seining. Our Lakes are Being Depleted and Future Profits Discounted. By Ezra J. Stewart
    • The Pineapple. Destined to Be a Leading Crop of Florida. 
    • The American Eagle…. 
    • The Shakers…. 
    • A Tribute to Benjamin Gates. By Ezra J. Stewart
    • There are openings…. 
    • Hunting and Fishing. South Florida a Paradise for Hunters and Fishermen. By Ezra J. Stewart
    • Pineapples.
    • Citrus Groves in Florida. Practical Information Relating to Planting, Cultivating, Gathering and Marketing Oranges, Grapefruit, etc. By Ezra J. Stewart
    • The Shaker Community.
    • Cassava and Arrowroot. Two Prolific Plants Which Promise Great Profits in the Coming Industrial Development of Florida. By Ezra J. Stewart
    • Yule-tide Meditations. By Ezra J. Stewart
    • The Shakers….
    • Nut-Bearing Trees. Pecans, Walnuts, Chestnuts and Almonds of Many Varieties Can Be Profitably Produced in Florida. by Ezra J. Stewart.
    • News from the Shaker Colony.
    • Winter Strawberries. A Great Money Crop, but One Requiring Care, Skill and Industry. By Ezra J. Stewart

    Front cover illustration: “Shaker Orange Grove. St. Cloud, Fla.” Postcard, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College.

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    • From the Editor
    • “For Zion’s sake I will not hold my peace”: The Spiritual Travails of a Cochranite Woman by David Newell
    • The Dealings of a Few of the Church at York who Call themselves Christians, with Samuel Junkins and his Wife: Together with a Short Sketch of Her Own Christian Experience, Written by Her Own Hand. by Olive Junkins
    • Reminiscences of the Shakers and Shaker Collecting by Robert and Hazel Belfit by Robert Belfit, Lynn Crabtree, and Patricia Williams
    • Hamilton College Library “Home Notes” 

    Front cover illustration: W. W. Dunn. Evolution and True Light. Fort Worth: Texas Print. & Lithographing Co., 1889. Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College. See also “Home Notes,” pp. 227-[28].

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    • From the Editor
    • George Darrow, an Early Shaker who “Turned Away” by Marilyn Cassidy
    • The West Family of the Hancock, Massachusetts, Shaker Community by Dirk Langeveld
    • Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
    • Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions

    Front cover illustration: “I AM” Mighty Victory’s Decrees, Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College.

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    • From the Editor
    • “The Most Lamentable Tragedy”: William Pennebaker and the 1871 Fracas at Pleasant Hill by Aaron Genton
    • Bibliography of Publications by Shaker Physicians William Pennebaker and Frank Tripp compiled by Randall L. Ericson
    • Prospects for Research on the Community of True Inspiration by Philip E. Webber
    • Room(s) for More: A Communal Dwelling or Family Home at Ephrata by Jeff Bach and Nick Siegert
    • The Founding Fathers and the Shakers by Christian Goodwillie

    Front cover illustration: The print “Les Shakers de Lebanon executant leur danse religieuse,” inserted between pp. 124-25 of Harriet Martineau, “Les trembleurs et la société de amis,” Le voleur, gazette des journaux français 7me année, no. 10 (7. marz 1838): 112-15; 7me année, no. 11 (14. marz 1838): [121]-22.

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    • From the Editor
    • An Interview with Marc Demarest
    • An Interview with David Newell and Cass Nawrocki
    • A Bibliography of Shaker-Authored and Shaker-Related Articles in Spiritualist Periodicals by David Newell and Cass Nawrocki
    • A Gold Blossom: Practice, Rhetorical Invention, and Spirit Control in in Amanda Jones’s Psychic Autobiography by Elizabeth Lowry
    • Light and Dark Sides of Spiritualism: The Eddy Brothers and the Shakers by Christian Goodwillie
    • Document: “A Young Shaker Among the Eddys”
    • Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”

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    • From the Editor
    • A New Shaker Bibliography: Progress Report by Randall L. Ericson
    • A Chapter on the Shakers: Reprint by Isaac Hill
    • Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
    • Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions

    Front cover illustration: Jemima Wilkinson, leader of the Universal Friends. For the Act of Incorporation for Universal Friends see “Home Notes,” pp. 104-12

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    • From the Editor
    • Voices That Heard and Accepted the Call of God by Stephen J. Paterwic
    • Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
    • Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions

    Front cover illustration: Peace: One Nation, One Language, One Flag, One Speech. [n.p., n.d.]. A poster from the Father Divine collection recently added to the Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library. For more information see p. 40.

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  • From the Editor
    Three Months with the Shakers—II
    Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
    Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions


    Front cover illustration: A patriotic drawing from Charles Frederick Crosman, Manuscript Journal 1856-1866. See pp. 225-27.

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  • From the Editor
    The Tate Family of Shakers and Non-Shakers by M. Stephen Miller
    The Rise and Fall of Prince Michael Mills and the Detroit Jezreelites by Julieanna Frost
    Three Months with the Shakers—I


    Front cover illustration: Michael Mills, self-proclaimed seventh messenger, seated in front of Jezreel’s tower. (Courtesy of The Panacea Charitable Trust)

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    • From the Editor
    • Lunacy and Dissent Among the Shakers by Tom Sakmyster
    • The Nurturing Communities Project: Fostering Persistence and Emergence in Intentional Christian Communities by Margie DeWeese-Boyd
    • Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
    • Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions

    Front cover illustration: Front cover of the January 1907 issue of The Flaming Sword, a publication of Koreshan Unity, published by The Guiding Star Publishing House in Estero, Fla.

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