9/08/2016

On this date 232 years ago ...

Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers in America died at the community of Watervliet, New York.


Do all your work as though 
you've a thousand years to live, 
and as you would if you knew 
you must die tomorrow. 


- Mother Ann Lee 

Ann Lee's grave at the Shaker Cemetery in Albany County, NY
Photo by Erik Lander, 2001


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