The Abode of the Message, founded in 1975 by Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan of the Sufi Order International, is marking its 50th anniversary with a three-day retreat.

The Darrow School campus in New Lebanon is home to 16 Shaker buildings from the historic Mount Lebanon Shaker settlement dating back to the late 18th century. The school, in dire financial straits, ...

The Shakers of Mount Lebanon, who have for an age been a part of the picturesque rural life of New-York State, are soon to abandon their historical town and remove to pastures new.

The museum's collections have been without a permanent home for more than a decade, since the its galleries closed in 2009. Its primary focus has been stewardship of Mount Lebanon Shaker Village ...

Mount Lebanon Shaker Village Redux An outstanding collection of Shaker arts and crafts moves to the old Shaker Village in New York. Susan Spano. September 28, 2011. Get our newsletter!

New Lebanon was the biggest village in the Shaker world, 6,000 acres, and their first true communal colony, where brothers and sisters lived apart from the world, according to the society’s ...

Founded in 1783, it's the last active Shaker community. He spoke at Rockland's Farnsworth Art Museum on the occasion of the enlightening, visually arresting exhibition "The Shakers: From Mount ...

The Shakers planted a total of 200 acres of medicinal plants in their communities, with 50 at Mount Lebanon alone, and processed almost 300 varieties of indigenous and imported natural ingredients.

A stereo view of the Mt. Lebanon, New York Shaker community, about 1870. They believed in the second coming of Jesus Christ, and they practiced a celibate life, working to lead a clean, ethical ...

Sister Sarah Collins wearing typical Shaker-made cloak, Second Family, Mount Lebanon, New York by Noel A. Vicentini, in the exhibition ?A Promising Venture: Shaker Photographs from the WPA?

Both of the men had arrived from Mt. Lebanon, New York, which is located near the Hudson River, and not a great distance from the large Shaker community that was located in western Massachusetts.