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The Kentucky Shakers
In 1805, at the height of the period of early religious excitement in Kentucky, three members of the Shaker community in New Lebanon, New York, came to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to recruit converts. Soon there were little communities of Believers at Pleasant Hill in Mercer County and at South Union in Logan County. These settlements survived into the twentieth century as centers of worship and communal life; the buildings the Shakers erected here and many of their tools and artifacts remain to delight the eye today. But it is the life of the Shakers as well as the monuments they left that Julia Neal explores. Using the detailed journals and other records kept at both communities, she recounts the early struggles against poverty and persecution, the high hopes of the 1850s when the Shaker idea of communal life seemed to have borne fruit at last, and the hardship and violence of Civil War and Reconstruction days, from which the Kentucky Shakers were never to recover. This absorbing account of the Shakers at Pleasant Hill and South Union is, like so much else associated with the Shakers, simple, functional, and beautiful.
Off Broadway Musicals, 1910-2007
Despite an often unfair reputation as being less popular, less successful, or less refined than their bona-fide Broadway counterparts, Off Broadway musicals deserve their share of critical acclaim and study. A number of shows originally staged Off Broadway have gone on to their own successful Broadway runs, from the ever-popular A Chorus Line and Rent to more off-beat productions like Avenue Q and Little Shop of Horrors. And while it remains to be seen if other popular Off Broadway shows like Stomp, Blue Man Group, and Altar Boyz will make it to the larger Broadway theaters, their Off Broadway runs have been enormously successful in their own right. This book discusses more than 1,800 Off Br...
A Frisian Family
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New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs.
Volume contains: 57 NY 363 (Stuyvesant v. Grissler) 57 NY 331 (Aspinwall v. Sacchi) 57 NY 344 (Fisher v. Mayor &c of N.Y.) 57 NY 351 (Northrop v. Hill) 57 NY 360 (Locklin v. Moore) 57 NY 375 (Hunter v. Wetsell) 57 NY 382 (Eaton v. Del. L. & W. R.R.Co.) 57 NY 657 (Carpenter v. Halsey) 57 NY 659 (Cramer v. Metz) 57 NY 661 (Sage v. Volkening) 57 NY 662 (Metcalf v. Baker) 57 NY 663 (Woodruff v. Valentine) 57 NY 664 (Hawkins v. Palmer) Unreported Case (People ex rel Grissler v. Fowler) Unreported Case (Stuyvesant v. Browning) Unreported Case (Churchill v. Onderdonk)
New York City Cartmen, 1667-1850
The cartmen—unskilled workers who hauled goods on one horsecarts—were perhaps the most important labor group in early American cities. The forerunners of the Teamsters Union, these white-frocked laborers moved almost all of the nation’s possessions, touching the lives of virtually every American. New York City Cartmen, 1667–1850 tells the story of this vital group of laborers. Besides documenting the cartmen’s history, the book also demonstrates the tremendous impact of government intervention into the American economy via the creation of labor laws. The cartmen possessed a hard-nosed political awareness, and because they transported essential goods, they achieved a status in New Y...
