@article{Soules2024,
       author = "Soules, Rebecca",
       title =  {{Rabbit Heads, Indian Maidens, and a Can of Peas: Entertainments with the Canterbury Shakers}},
       howpublished = "\url{https://ir.hamilton.edu/do/ca182b44-b8d8-4386-bfa2-27a4d2202aae}",
       publisher = {Richard W. Couper Press and Hamilton College Library Special Collections},
       journal = {American Communal Societies Quarterly},
       year = 2024,
       month = jul,
       volumen = {18},
       number = {3-4},
       pages = {235--255},
}

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July 2024

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2027-10-01

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Between 1883 and 1935, the Canterbury Shakers planned and performed more than 120 "Entertainments,” including skits, tableaus, plays, cantatas, concerts, and parades. Influenced by the popularity of amateur theater in the United States, the Shakers copied poems from newspapers, bought volumes of plays, and took over an entire room on the third floor of their 1793 Dwelling House to store their costumes, props, and other Entertainment paraphernalia. Entertainments were clearly not a brief aberration in the community’s long history, but rather a cherished and beloved institution that endured for more than half a century.

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• Article

Source Title

American Communal Societies Quarterly

ISSN

1939-473X

Volume

18

Issue

3-4

First Page

235

Last Page

255

Publisher

Richard W. Couper Press

Hamilton College Library Special Collections

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