................... Our Shaker Heritage ~ research on the Runyon family at Pleasant Hill, Kentucky ... and more!
3/13/2012
On this date in 1835 ...
March 13, 1835 - Joel Green and Matilda Runyon (Josephs daughter) signed the Covenant in presence of A Wilhite and John R Bryant.
3/10/2012
It’s not *a* gift to be simple
It’s the gift.
Elder Joseph Brackett's "Simple Gifts" is a dance song written in 1848 at the Shaker community in Alfred, Maine. The original words written by Elder Joseph are as follows:
These details and more fascinating facts on “Simple Gifts” and other Shaker music are available from music scholar Roger Lee Hall at American Music Preservation. You can also listen to a few renditions of the song, hosted by the Running After my Hat blog, here, here, and here.
Attributed to Elder Joseph Brackett of the Alfred Shaker Ministry, June 28, 1848. Manuscript penned by Eldress Mary Hazzard of the New Lebanon Shaker Ministry. Alfred Shaker Museum
Elder Joseph Brackett's "Simple Gifts" is a dance song written in 1848 at the Shaker community in Alfred, Maine. The original words written by Elder Joseph are as follows:
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where we ought to be,
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
When true simplicity is gain'd,
To bow and to bend we shan't be asham'd,
To turn, turn will be our delight,
'Till by turning, turning we come round right.
These details and more fascinating facts on “Simple Gifts” and other Shaker music are available from music scholar Roger Lee Hall at American Music Preservation. You can also listen to a few renditions of the song, hosted by the Running After my Hat blog, here, here, and here.
Attributed to Elder Joseph Brackett of the Alfred Shaker Ministry, June 28, 1848. Manuscript penned by Eldress Mary Hazzard of the New Lebanon Shaker Ministry. Alfred Shaker Museum
3/05/2012
Restoring Pleasant Hill
It's been two hundred years since the Runyon family arrived at Pleasant Hill. Thanks to its restoration, begun 50 years ago, we can walk the grounds, eat a meal in the Trustee's Office, and listen to a song in the meeting house...and experience a bit of what life was like in the early days.
The mission of Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, a non-profit corporation, is to preserve and maintain the site of the Shaker community which once existed here; to protect its buildings, its countryside and the records and articles pertaining to its builders; to make these buildings and grounds available for the broader uses of culture, education and recreation benefiting the citizens of Kentucky and others who visit the Commonwealth.
Update: Unfortunately the video Restoring Plesant Hill is now listed as Private on Youtube.
The mission of Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, a non-profit corporation, is to preserve and maintain the site of the Shaker community which once existed here; to protect its buildings, its countryside and the records and articles pertaining to its builders; to make these buildings and grounds available for the broader uses of culture, education and recreation benefiting the citizens of Kentucky and others who visit the Commonwealth.
Update: Unfortunately the video Restoring Plesant Hill is now listed as Private on Youtube.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)