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.

NEW LEBANON, N.Y. - Though the main tourism season is over, Shaker historic sites from the Berkshires to the Capital Region are currently enjoying new exposure through two major initiatives in New ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Shaker Museum itself owns 91 acres with 10 Shaker buildings in nearby New Lebanon, — once Mount Lebanon, the spiritual and administrative Mother Ship of the Shaker communities throughout New ...

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?

On Saturday, August 19, Shaker Museum Mount Lebanon will hold their annual gala. The event will include a performance featuring Frances McDormand, Suzzy Roche, and Kate Valk presenting an excerpt ...

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 ...