The personal cost paid for both passivity and action are weighed in Adam Bock's "The Shaker Chair," which has now been co-produced by Berkeley's Shotgun Players and San Francisco's Encore Theater ...
Eighteenth-century Shakers put contemporary minimalists to shame. Members of this religious sect based in upstate New York and Western Massachusetts were adamant that form follow function: a chair was ...
Oregonian: What's it Worth? Shaker chair, Fruge watercolor, beer stein, Kutani china, oilcloth print
Q. Shaker rocking chair This rocking chair from my mother's side of the family came to Oregon in a covered wagon. It has the original material and is worn in the seat/front edge. The back side ...
What's it Worth? Shaker chair, Fruge watercolor, beer stein, Kutani china, oilcloth print
In The Shaker Chair, Marion (Mary Pauley) is excited about her new piece of furniture, and seems to think she’s acquired a new creed along with it. She gleefully talks about the beliefs and habits of ...
The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, more commonly known as the Shakers, are a millenarian restorationist Christian sect founded c. 1747 in England and then organized in the United States in the 1780s. They were initially known as "Shaking Quakers " because of their ecstatic behavior during worship services.
Known as “Mother Ann,” Ann Lee was a charismatic religious leader who brought the Shaker movement from England to the American Colonies. Regarded as the embodiment of the feminine aspect of God’s dual masculine-feminine nature, she was believed to have ushered in the millennium of the Second Coming of Christ.