“She had a death with dignity and love,” Hadd said Tuesday. “She was surrounded by love, tears and a lot of Shaker songs.” Their community at Sabbathday Lake was settled in 1783 and was ...

There’s an emcee who introduces the songs, a DJ manning a turntable and ... it’s all the same to these women. Shaker musicality is as unvarnished as Shaker carpentry. What could be the points ...

“O Brethren Ain’t Ye Happy?” is an old Shaker song and one of the few “motion songs” still in the Shakers’ repertoire. But only two people in the packed chapel were actual Shaker ...

Robert C. and Viola E. Woodruff Opdahl have worked more than a decade to complete the paperback of more than 129 Shaker songs presented in 10 sections introduced by text and illustrations.

But consider the words to the well-known Shaker song, "Simple Gifts": "'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 ...