The 1985 Ken Burns production of The Shakers can be viewed online by members who can access PBS Passport (58 minutes).
Through diaries, archival photographs, music and stunning cinematography, Ken Burns creates a moving portrait of this particularly American movement, and in the process, offers us an unusually moving way to understand the Shakers.
of note --
26:00 - The Kentucky Revival 1800
27:00 - In 1805, the same year that Lewis and Clark were exploring the great northwest, the ministry at Mount Lebanon [New York] sent three Believers to Kentucky to gather in the restless...
27:45 - On a bluegrass hill near the Kentucky River in Mercer County, forty-four converts signed the covenant and established a village called Pleasant Hill. The river was their road, connecting the Shakers to markets down the Ohio and the Mississippi.
29:27 - The Western Shakers had a particularly progressive Shaker spirit ...
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