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Offers a intriguing study of one of America's last Shaker communities, interweaving an account of the daily lives of the women in the community with a study of Shaker traditions and principles and a history of the Shakers in the United States. 15,000 first printing.

June Sprigg is a graduate of Lafayette College and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. From 1977 to 1982 and 1986 to 1994 she was Curator of Collections at the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She has guest-curated major exhibitions of Shaker design at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo. She is a freelance writer and adjunct instructor of history at Berkshire Community College. Her many publications include <i>By Shaker Hands</i> (1975), <i>Domestick Beings</i> (1984), <i>Inner Light: The Shaker Legacy</i> (1985), and <i>Shaker Built</i> (1994). She lives in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.