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A Personal Tour of a Shaker Village
By Capek, Michael
- ISBN
- 978-0-82253-584-3
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, MN : Lerner Publications, c2001.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 2001
Gr 4-7 Like Raymond Bial's handsome photo-essay Shaker Home (Houghton, 1994), this title is set at Pleasant Hill, the Shaker living-history museum in Kentucky. Capek provides a historical overview of the sect, a summary of their current status, and five third-person accounts of life in an 1849 communal society. Through the eyes of a fictional deacon, former slave, teacher, physician, and visitor to w...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
