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SVWG: Manuscripts

Object ID
Research collection-3
Physical description
14 folders.
Scope and content

Manuscripts written by Jerome Count, Robert C. Opdahl, and others about the Shakers. Some appear to be history papers written by villagers and sent to Jerome Count.

Arrangement

4.1 Arnolds, Dan. "Tis a gift to be simple." 1965. 4.2 Clark, Faith. "Shaker service." 1961-1962. 4.3 Count, Jerome. "Shakers and their music." Undated. 4.4 Count, Jerome. "Shaker restoration." Undated. 4.5 Count, Jerome. "Teen-agers and the Shakers." Undated. 4.6 Fink, Arthur J. "Utopian experiments in 19th cent. America." 1964. 4.7 Gaines, Linda. "Economic aspects of the Shakers." 1955. 4.8 Lazes, Peter. "The shakers." 1961. 4.9 Opdahl, Robert C. "Shaker symbolic music." Undated. 4.10 Rensselaer County Junior Museum. "The shakers." 1957-1958. 4.11 Unknown author. "Hands to work and hearts to God." Undated. 4.12. Unknown author. "The Lebanon Shakers 1780-1929." Undated. 4.13 Wallace, Dan. "Shakers: a precedent." undated. 4.14 Weitzman, Bernard. "Biographical sketch of F.W. Evans." Undated.

Files

III.4.1,2,3,4,5III.4.6,7,8,9,10III.4.11,12,13,14

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Shane Rothe

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Shane Rothe (they/them) joined Shaker Museum in July 2023, working with independent curator Maggie Taft on an exhibition for the new museum space in Chatham. Shane is an artist as well as a curator and continues to create in the mediums of painting, sculpture, writing, and performance. Shane holds a BFA from CalArts and an MA in art history and curatorial studies from the University of Chicago.