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Shakers

A museum village near Harrodsburg, Kentucky lets visitors experience Shaker style by spending the night.

“Partial list of Articles to be Sold at Shaker Village, near Harrodsburg, Ky., July 12th, 1922, Beginning at 11 o’clock,” reads the poster in a book on my lap: 

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