With the passing of the Shaker settlement at Colonie, N.Y., sister Mary Frances Dahn and Grace M. Dahn of the South Family, have started life anew at the North Family of Shakers on Mt. Lebanon. When ...

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 ...

COLONIE — Seated in the last row of the Shaker Heritage Society’s meetinghouse is an 1870 photograph of Phoebe Lane. Her gentle smile and gaze preside over the unadorned hall where she once sang and ...