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The Shakers
In September, 2022, my wife, Jayne, and I visited the historic Hancock Shaker Village which began in the 1780’s. Current thinking suggests that the Shakers most likely invented the flat broom. The name Shaker, as stated on their website , was given to this religious group as a derisive term by people outside the faith who had watched the Shakers whirl and tremble to “shake” off sins and evil during their ecstatic worship. My goal with this mini-series is to present a brief celebration of their earned religious freedom and simple lifestyle that still lives on today in the shadows of their history.
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