American Communal Societies Quarterly Publications
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- From the Editor
- Brother Ricardo Belden Revisited by Magda Gabor-Hotchkiss
- The Amana Church Society: Community, Continuity and Change by Peter Hoehnle
- The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers, Part Three: “Calvin” versus “A Lover of Truth,” Abusing Caleb Rathbun, the Death of Joseph Meacham and the Tale of His Sister by Christian Goodwillie
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Conservation of the Earliest Known Shaker Architectural Image: The Ambrotype of the South Family, Harvard, Massachusetts
Front cover illustration: Photograph (ambrotype). Harvard, Massachusetts, Shaker village, ca. 1860. See page 64 for the history of this image and an account of its preservation.
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- From the Editor
- The Harvard Shaker Cemetery by Roben Campbell
- The Tribulations of the White Water Shakers: The Child Molestation Trial of 1840 by Thomas Sakmyster
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: [Postcard]. Shaker Burying Ground, Harvard, Mass. [detail]. The picture shows the Harvard Shaker cemetery with both stone and metal markers.
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- From the Editor
- Peter Ayers, Defender of the Faith by Galen Beale
- Free Press of the House of Israel: The First Publication of Benjamin Purnell Reprint
- Commentary by R. James Taylor
- Making the Bible Argument: John H. Noyes’ Mission
- Statement for the Oneida Community by Anthony Wonderley
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- New Publications from Richard W. Couper Press
Front cover illustration: Garden Seeds, Raised at New-Lebanon, Columbia County, New-York, and put up in papers, for sale by [blank]. [Albany: Printed by Packard & Van Benthuysen, between 1816 and 1824]. 33 x 21 cm.
Hamilton College has recently acquired this seed order form, one of the earliest known examples printed for the New Lebanon, New York, Shaker community. An example similar to this one is in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society but there are distinct typographical and a few price differences between the two. Neither is dated, and the date range given for this example is based on the cataloging of the example at AAS. The Hamilton College copy has the “N.B.” (nota bene, or note well) post-script about ordering seeds in July, which is not present on the AAS copy. Additionally, the Hamilton copy has been completed in manuscript, while the AAS example was never completed. -
- From the Editor
- How the Harmonists Suffered Disharmony: Schism in Communal Utopias by Donald E. Pitzer
- The Story of Brother Ricardo’s Song by Darryl Charles Thompson
- Pilgrims and Martyrs: The Engraved Title Page of Ephrata’s Martyrs Mirror by Jeff Bach
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
- Reopening the Rare Book Room
- Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions
Front cover illustration: Detail from the engraved title page of Martyrer=Spiegel der Tauffs-gesinnten, druckts und verlegts der Brüderschaft in Euphratha.
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- From the Editor
- “Freedom of the Press is Guaranteed Only to Those Who Own the Presses” by Henry M. Yaple
- Two Early Photographs of Amana by Peter Hoehnle
- The Shakers in Eighteenth-Century Newspapers Part Two: Voyages of the Shaker Ship and Other Adventures, both Legal and Social by Christian Goodwillie
- Richard W. Couper Press order form
Front cover illustration: Amana Society. Indigo Blue. Prints. [Product label]. 1890s. 7½ x 6 inches. Amana did not have the capability of four-color printing in the early 1890s so this label must have been commercially produced for the Society. According to Peter Hoehnle, the 1890s were the high point for calico production at Amana. It is likely that an outside person was commissioned to develop this label, whose design was more elaborate than the typical Amana label.
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- From the Editor
- Black Shaker Minstrels and the Comic Performance of Shaker Worship By Robert P. Emlen
- Medical Practice in the Harvard Shaker Church Family 1834-1843 By Merry B. Post
- Shaker Seminar 2010
- Hamilton College Library “Home Notes”
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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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- 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
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- “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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- 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.
