Spring Shaker Forum Online Lecture Series
April 29 - May 20
$15.00 – $75.00
7:00 pm
Continue the tradition of the Shaker Forum this spring with our online lecture series. Join us for an engaging series of Zoom-based presentations devoted to Shaker history and culture. Talks will be held live at 7 pm from April 29 to May 20.
Participants will be provided access to recordings of all the talks to watch or re-watch at their convenience. Our program will include the following presentations:
April 29: Robert Emlen, “The Changing Face of Shaker Life: How Pictorial Images in the Popular Press Reflect the Growing Acceptance of the Shakers in 19th-Century America”
May 4: Ned Quist, “Motive, Means and Opportunity: Amateur Shutterbugs Shoot the Harvard Shakers”
May 6: Christian Goodwillie, “First in the West: The Shaker Experience of Visionary Malcolm Worley and His Family”
May 11: Sharon Koomler, “Seen & Received: Continuing Reflections on the Shakers’ Private Art”
May 18: Jerry Grant, “Both Sides of the Lens: The Mount Lebanon Shakers and the Men and Women Who Photographed Them”
May 20: Kerry Hackett, “Brother Philemon Stewart as New Lebanon Church Family Physician: Re-imagining a portion of his ‘toiling, stormy, industrious, valuable life'”
