An Endangered Sect Pictures of the Last Active Shaker Community in Maine
By Kim Knox Beckius, About.com Guide
These pictures from an early autumn visit to Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village provide a glimpse of the life of America's last remaining Shakers.
With their devotion to celibacy and inability to win many modern converts, the simple marker reading "Shakers" at the Village's communal cemetery may one day speak not only for those buried here, but for their faith.
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