Neither Plain nor Simple: New Perspectives on the Canterbury Shakers - Brief Article - Book Review

Magazine Antiques, Feb, 2004

Neither Plain nor Simple: New Perspectives on the Canterbury Shakers

By David R. Starbuck

MA-219, paper covers

Our price $29.95

Starbuck began excavating several dump sites at the Shaker community in Canterbury. New Hampshire, in 1994. Among his astonishing finds are whiskey flasks, beer and ginger beer bottles, and perfume bottles, indicating that the Shakers lived a more worldly life than has previously been thought. This is an impressive study of how the Shakers really lived. 125 illustrations.

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