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Friday, September 14, 2012 5:30-7:30pm
Free to the Public!
Celebrate the opening of our new exhibit! Shaker Heights residents joined the national voice in the turbulent times of the 60s to support civil rights, integration and social activism, and to participate in the counterculture trends that were sweeping the country. Citizens mobilized on Read more »
The Shakers lived in communal, self-sufficient farm communities working the land and tending to animals. Although they preached equality of the sexes, their day to day labor activities were segregated; women partook in domestic jobs such as weaving, cooking, and cleaning while men did manual labor, such as carpentry, farming, and other Read more »
While I was cataloging some of the interesting artifacts here at The Shaker Historical Society, I came across something labeled as a bookmark. The description was simple, and the item seemed functional. I thought the advertisement for Shaker Cloaks on the bookmark was interesting, but I moved on to the next item. But, Read more »
One of the oddest appearing artifacts at The Shaker Historical Society sits in the middle of the Collections Room. Multiple visitors inquire about the object, however, the only information I had known, or rather inferred, was that it was somehow used by the Shaker women for spinning. I was determined to find Read more »
As I walked into The Shaker Historical Society today, our Director of Education was cleaning up after a successful tour with a school group. Being that they were fourth graders, quite a mess was created, and I assisted with the cleanup. Part of this involved sweeping up some seeds Read more »
For the past few months, I have been working on the Collections Room. My job entailed organizing the storage area, identifying unlabeled artifacts, and creating labels for those artifacts on display. While it may not seem like a huge space, there was a great deal of artifacts both on display Read more »
The Van Sweringen Legacy: Shaker Heights, The Rapid, and Terminal Tower
The new permanent exhibit tells the life story of Oris Paxton and Mantis James Van Sweringen, born in Wooster, Ohio, in 1879 and 1881 respectively. O.P. and M.J., as they came to be known, were inseparable from boyhood through adulthood. Industrious and enterprising, Read more »
