SHAKERS. Members of the American religious group the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing were popularly called Shakers. One of the longest-lived and most influential religious communitarian groups in America, the Shakers...

The Shakers, a Protestant religious denomination officially called The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, originated in Manchester, England in 1772 under the leadership of Mother Ann Lee, who moved the nine-person group to New...

Taller than the trees and built to last ages, the Shakers' stone barn towered over the rolling fields east of the Hudson River and symbolized the religious group's tireless industry.Lately, the 19th-century barn has been in decay.A suspicious fire in 1972 gutted the barn and...

The Shakers quarried the stone in nearby Canaan and slid it across the frozen lake to get it to their building site in Enfield. They dug the foundation, milled the lumber and spent three years crafting cupboards, bannisters and hundreds of built-in...

Once upon a time, the art of the cocktail was the epitome of urban sophistication, conjuring images of the Stork Club and silver screen tipplers like William Powell and Myrna Loy. While the influence of cocktail culture has ebbed and flowed throughout the last century,...