Publications
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Shaker Studies, no. 12. 277 pages, 2017.
ISBN: 978-1-937370-22-0 ($40)
Shaker Brother Isaac Newton Youngs served his community at New Lebanon, New York, as a tailor, clockmaker, mapmaker, mechanic, inventor, musician and hymn writer, lens-grinder, stonecutter, button maker, bookkeeper, journalist, tinsmith, printer, pipe fitter, joiner, and blacksmith. He built a sundial, made tools including a weaver’s reed, turned clothespins, made knitting needles, and laid floors. He was also an architect and roofer. Few aspects of life at New Lebanon were outside of Youngs’s sphere of activity. Therefore, it is fitting that he undertook to write a comprehensive history of his community, systematically treating all facets of Shaker life and culture. Youngs’s A Concise View Of the Church of God and of Christ, On Earth is printed here for the first time in unabridged form. The editors have carefully transcribed and annotated the text, and have selected illustrations to complement Youngs’s descriptive text. Additionally, appendices supplying vital statistics, and information on the occupations of New Lebanon Shakers (many of which were compiled by Youngs) are included. Finally, a selection of Youngs’s poetry rounds out a rich portrait of the lives and talents of Brother Isaac Newton Youngs, and his beloved Shaker brethren and sisters, as they labored humbly in the creation of a unique world where work was worship, and heaven was all around them.Topic -
American Communal Societies Series, no. 13. 175 pages with illustrations, 2017
ISBN: 978-1-937370-24-4 ($25)
The first work of its kind, the Annotated Bibliography of Inspirationist Imprints catalogs the considerable body of literature published by the Community of True Inspiration during its three hundred year history, both in Europe and the United States of America. There are 312 separate imprints listed, many identified as Inspirationist for the first time, complete with English translations of their titles and notes about their contents. Sixty-seven illustrations provide visual evidence of the stunning typography, and iconography, employed by Inspirationist authors and printers.
About the author:
Lanny Haldy served from 1983 to 2016 as Executive Director of the Amana Heritage Society, a non-profit organization whose mission is to preserve and interpret the cultural heritage of the Amana Colonies National Historic Landmark. His roots in the community go back to 1748 when Christian Haldy, a minister from Westerich and Billigheim near Strasbourg, joined the Inspirationist community in Gelnhausen. -
- 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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2nd ed. American Communal Societies Series, no. 12. 365 pages with 106 b/w illustrations + 1 folded map, 2016.
ISBN: 978-0-937370-19-0 ($50)
This work “dramatically expands our demographic knowledge of one of America’s most important communal utopian movements, the Harmony Society of George Rapp. This volume offers an indispensable resource for scholars, descendants, and those who interpret the Harmony Society for the public at its three historic towns of Harmony and Old Economy village in Pennsylvania and New Harmony, Indiana.” (Donald E. Pitzer)
About the author:
Eileen Aiken English is a volunteer researcher and historical interpreter at Old Economy Village. Her study of the Harmony Society began fourteen years ago, when she retired from the faculty of California University of Pennsylvania. -
358 pages, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-937370-20-6 ($50)
A comprehensive collection of more than thirty Iroquois language documents from the Samuel Kirkland Papers at Hamilton College. Dating from 1768-1803, these manuscripts have been transcribed, transliterated, and translated, many for the first time. The volume includes line-by-line photographic illustrations of each letter, along with the translator’s work. Each document is then given in full facsimile, and full translation. Introductory essays by the compilers examine Iroquois literacy and linguistics as illustrated by the documents.Topic -
Shaker Studies, no. 11. 428 pages, 2016. Illustrations (some color)
ISBN: 978-1-937370-18-3 ($35)
Robert White’s spiritual journey eventually led him to the Shakers, but, much to his dismay, his wife did not share his views and remained committed to Quakerism. As a married, celibate Believer, Robert White had to balance the often-conflicting roles he played in his two families, natural and Shaker. How he functioned as a Shaker convert living “in the world” is a story of faith and challenges; an exceptional Shaker experience in the mid-nineteenth century.Topic -
- 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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181 pages, Upstate Institute and Richard W. Couper Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-1-937370-21-3 ($35)
Freemasonry played a vital role in the social development of New York State. Its Lodges provided a trusted place for newcomers to meet and for friendships and business partnerships to develop, free from political, professional, and sectarian differences. During its explosive growth from 1790 to the end of the 1820s Masonic brethren produced iconic architecture, as well as extraordinary examples of folk art, expressed in large symbolic paintings (“tracing boards”), murals, textiles, and graphics. Most of these have remained entirely unknown outside the Upstate Lodges that, against all hazards, have preserved them. Their symbolism seems mysterious and confusing to outsiders, but once explained, it gives insight into a period and place unique in American history.
Joscelyn Godwin is professor of music at Colgate University. Christian Goodwillie is director and curator of Special Collections, Burke Library, Hamilton College. Marianita Peaslee is the digital imagery specialist, Burke Library, Hamilton College.Topic -
- 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”
