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The New York Times: The Shakers Are Movers, Too
CHATHAM, N.Y. — In an earlier life, the moribund red brick Victorian at the foot of Main Street in this thriving Columbia County village had been a sanitarium, a hotel and tavern, a furniture store and an auto dealership. These were the warm-up acts for its latest incarnation: a permanent new home for the Shaker Museum, widely […]
SHAKER MUSEUM NAMES MATTHEW MALIN TO BOARD OF TRUSTEES
CHATHAM, NEW YORK. AUGUST 9, 2021 – Shaker Museum, which stewards the most comprehensive collection of Shaker material culture and archives, announced today the appointment of Matthew Malin to its Board of Trustees. Shaker Museum’s Board of Trustees now has seventeen members. Malin, who has extensive experience launching and building retail brands, is joining the […]
“Our fire engine was used & did good service”
The size of wood-framed Shaker buildings made the threat of fire and the challenge of effectively fighting fires a great and constant concern to the Shakers. It led them to a large extent to abandon the use of fireplaces in favor of safer cast-iron wood stoves, to replace wood shingles with slate or tin, and […]
