Arnold Hadd is the last Shaker man on Earth. And you can find him and three “sisters” in the dwindling faith group living on the hilly farmland near Sabbathday Lake, southwest of Lewiston, Maine. A ...
Their numbers have dwindled, but the remaining members are imagining what comes next. Brother Arnold Hadd of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker village in Maine.Credit...Lucas Foglia for The New York Times ...
Paused at the top of the road overlooking the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, I recall a line from “Simple Gifts,” a well-known Shaker hymn written in Maine in 1848: “And when we find ourselves in the ...
Gay blades from Pittsfield, Mass., riding past the big brick house a century ago, might have smiled to hear them singing: Oh, it is by holy living That we gain an entrance there; For communion with ...
Long ago, a small radical Christian sect left England in search of religious tolerance. They were people who abandoned their families and social lives to live together in a communal, equal setting ...
Head to any restaurant or bar and you’re likely to notice inflation on the menu. The National Restaurant Association announced that menu prices have increased by 7.7 percent over the last 12 months, ...