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Wels, Susan

Summary: "It was heaven on earth--and, some whispered, the devil's garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place -- especially the women, with their queer cropped hair...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.77 WEI

Summary: They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of their ecstatic dancing, the world called them Shakers. Through diaries, archival photographs, music and stunning cinematography, Ken Burns creates a moving portrait of this group.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Video 2002

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SHA

Stille, Alexander

Summary: "The shocking story of the Sullivan Institute, a psychoanalytic organization of artists and intellectuals that devolved into a dangerous cult on Manhattan's Upper West Side"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.77 STI

Kasischke, Laura

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAS

Foerstner, Abigail

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Iowa Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 779.99 FOE

Wayland-Smith, Ellen.

Summary: "Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus'' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called "complex marriage," an elaborate system of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2016

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 307.7 WAY

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