Simple Gifts : A Memoir of a Shaker Village
by June Sprigg
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- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0679455043
- ISBN 13
- 9780679455042
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Synopsis
June Sprigg is a graduate of Lafayette College and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. From 1977 to 1982 and 1986 to 1994 she was Curator of Collections at the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She has guest-curated major exhibitions of Shaker design at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Sezon Museum of Art in Tokyo. She is a freelance writer and adjunct instructor of history at Berkshire Community College. Her many publications include By Shaker Hands (1975), Domestick Beings (1984), Inner Light: The Shaker Legacy (1985), and Shaker Built (1994). She lives in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Madden Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- A06208
- Title
- Simple Gifts : A Memoir of a Shaker Village
- Author
- June Sprigg
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0679455043
- ISBN 13
- 9780679455042
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- 1970'S; 20TH CENTURY; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; CHRISTIANITY; FEMININE; HISTORY; NEW ENGLAND; HAMPSHIRE; NON-FICTION; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS; SHAKERS; UNITED STATES
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- Religion; Biography, Sociology, Philosophy;
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