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An Early Autumn Visit

Pictures of the Last Active Shaker Community in Maine

These pictures from an early autumn visit to Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village provide a glimpse of the life of America's last remaining Shakers.
Early Autumn Day at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine.

We visited the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine on an early autumn day in 2006. The last remaining active Shaker community was established here in 1794.

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