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To: IronJack
I'm surprised any are left. The last of the male Shakers died in 1960 (thereabouts), and with none to instruct new male converts (of whom there had been none in quite a number of years), the surviving female Shakers voted to close the covenant. Since that time the last of the female Shakers have continued to worship, but have been living off the somewhat substantial endowment accumulated and administered by the sect over the two hundred or so years of its existence. In recent years young men and young women have lived among the survivors, helping them out with chores and trying to learn their lifestyle, but the Shaker women described this as "living in a Shaker-like manner".

29 posted on 08/21/2018 8:20:00 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: SunkenCiv

There is one Shaker Brother and one Shaker Sister left at a compound in upstate New York.


34 posted on 08/21/2018 10:28:01 AM PDT by IronJack
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