Saturday, November 17th 6:00 – 12:00 p.m.
An Evening to Celebrate Shaker Heights Visionarieshonors outstanding individuals who make significant contributions to the community through exemplary leadership, service and philanthropy.
The 2012 Shaker Heights Visionaries include:
Nancy & Bernie Karr
Chris & Tom Stevens
The Honorable 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 »
