Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon has received a $25,000 grant from the Tianaderrah Foundation to begin work restoring the cropland landscape in the North Pastures at the historic Shaker site at Mount Lebanon in New Lebanon, NY.
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Sharon Duane Koomler is a Shaker scholar and traditional letterpress printer living in upstate New York. She has academic degrees in American Folklore from Indiana University and Western Kentucky University. Sharon has worked at Shaker Museums from Kentucky to New Hampshire as an educator, curator, consultant, and director. She has written and published on Shaker material culture and spirituality, and lectured widely on Shaker art, life, and belief. Sharon has a particular interest in the under-researched social aspects of Shaker life and ways in which Shakers practiced inclusion and intentionality.