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jonmsweeney.bsky.social
When down east Maine, in this order: used bookstore in Freeport, ice cream on Sabbathday Lake, Shakers, fish chowder in Cape Porpoise.
August 19, 2026 at 8:37 PM
onecuriousoul.bsky.social
ARE CHRISTIANS OBLIGATED TO KEEP THE SABBATH? -- a Bill's Bible Basics article

#Sabbath #shabbat #SabbathDay

This Bill’s Bible Basics 2-part article can be read at: https://www.billkochman.com/Articles/index-new.html
Are Christians obligated to keep the Sabbath? Visual of challah, candles, goblet and scroll for article on Sabbath observance
August 15, 2026 at 7:07 PM
meganlcook.bsky.social
I met Francis Carr, then one of the three remaining Shakers, at a Sacred Harp singing at Sabbathday Lake in 2012, and it was one of those moments— mostly involving other monastics— when I was aware of being in the presence of someone with a profound, constitutive relationship to the divine
August 1, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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brescaandthehoneybee.com
Bresca & The Honeybee
Restaurant on Sabbathday Lake with swimming and boating.
brescaandthehoneybee.com
July 27, 2026 at 4:20 PM
spark.fit
Interior (Southern) Maine:

- Lake Auburn (Tabor’s mini golf/ice cream)
- Sabbathday Lake Shakers
- Songo Locks (Naples)
- Sebago Lake State Park
July 23, 2026 at 1:58 PM
respectfully.bsky.social
1. Historic American Buildings Survey Miller/Swift, Photographers 1970 FRONT ELEVATION - Shaker Church Family Washhouse, East of State Route 26, South of North Raymond Road, cen... (1970)

#vintage #oldphotos #publicdomain

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/hh/item/me0009.photos.087978p/
1. Historic American Buildings Survey Miller/Swift, Photographers 1970 FRONT ELEVATION - Shaker Church Family Washhouse, East of State Route 26, South of North Raymond Road, centrally located in church family area, Sabbathday Lake Village, Cumberland County, ME
January 24, 2026 at 6:39 AM
mpgphd.bsky.social
Brother Arnold joined in '78, and I believe there's been at least one other sister who joined and left since then

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Brother Arnold Hadd, Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village, New Gloucester — Portland Museum of Art
Brother Arnold Hadd was born in Springfield, Massachusetts. His interest in communalism led him to the Shaker religious community. He visited the Shakers for three years and eventually joined in Janua...
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August 19, 2025 at 11:29 PM
lindli.bsky.social
lmao! I knew it would be the sabbathday shakers! This is by my house
August 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
rachelhands.com
Kazumi Tanaka’s Communion gives us time, space, and togetherness without specificity
Two wooden tables, each set with one plate. A mechanical grandfather clock with no clock face, but that is ticking away the seconds, sits between them on the opposite wall. A wooden door frame against a gallery wall with the top set at an angle, a door sitting slightly ajar so that you can look at where it leads, a pale blue emptiness. Text printed on the gallery wall reads: Kazumi Tanaka and Gordon Hall consider the relationship between furniture and sculpture. Tanaka's tables, clock, and door made meticulously by hand reference the sanctity of meals shared among Shakers, while Hall's isolated rocker from a ladderback rocking chair is inspired by craftsmanship as a form of prayer. Wall text card reads: Kazumi Tanaka Born 1962 in Osaka, Japan Communion, 1996/2025 Wood, metal, plates, plexiglass, and water Courtesy the artist During her 1996 residency at Sabbathday Lake, Kazumi Tanaka was inspired by the everyday rituals of communion, such as shared meals in the dining room of the dwelling house. Tanaka memorialized this experience in the form of an installation composed of two tables and a clock, all made meticulously by hand. Inlaid into the top of the pine tables — which evoke the separate tables for men and women in the dining room - are metal trays filled with water. The plates float on the surface of the water, evoking the presence of the Shakers sharing a meal, just as the ticking clock with no hands evokes the passage of time, which Tanaka observed passed "more carefully" at the village. Here, Tanaka also included an anamorphic door that sits permanently ajar. Conceived in 1996 but not shown until 2025, the door alludes to Shaker founder Mother Ann Lee's sentiment that the Shakers should open the windows and doors to receive whoever will arrive, a spirit of openness and generosity Brother Arnold Hadd carries forward at Sabbathday Lake.
March 2, 2025 at 7:19 PM
rachelhands.com
please consider this photograph of Jonathan Berger’s An Introduction to Nameless Love-Untitled (Brother Arnold Hadd, with Sarah Workneh) to be an invitation to go see it in person. I chatted with the gallery attendant protecting it from enthusiastic toddlers about how delicate it is.
Not quite full view of An Introduction to Nameless Love-Untitled (Brother Arnold Hadd, with Sarah Workneh). It’s a transcription of an interview about Shaker principles of community rendered in aluminum, hung from a wide doorway between two galleries. You can see another part of the exhibit through the text, which is sculpted in careful rows of aluminum letters joined to thin horizontal strips of aluminum. The title at the top reads “Living Together Alone,” a concept that is extremely my shit. Wall text card reads: Jonathan Berger Born 1980 in New York An Introduction to Nameless Love-Untitled (Brother Arnold Hadd, with Sarah Workneh), 2020 Tin and nickel Courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York In Jonathan Berger's text-based, sculptural installation An Introduction to Nameless Love-Untitled (Brother Arnold Hadd, with Sarah Workneh), Brother Arnold Hadd of Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village was one of six protagonists interviewed on the subject of "nameless love," a term the artist uses to describe nonromantic forms of love. After extensive conversations with Brother Arnold, the transcripts were edited and condensed by Sarah Workneh, Berger's collaborator and the former codirector of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, located in Maine near Sabbathday Lake. Berger then cut the text letter by letter from tin and reassembled them into a wall-size, text-based sculpture with doors on either side—a reference to the Shaker separation of genders reflected in their architectural forms. In the text, Brother Arnold describes how, for the Shakers, labor is a spiritual expression of divine love. This labor of love is likewise expressed in Berger's meticulously crafted sculpture.
March 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
langealexandra.bsky.social
Ooo, this is a new one for me! I've seen most of the New England sites, still need to get to Sabbathday Lake
January 2, 2026 at 4:10 PM
crowshaw.bsky.social
Welp, three Shakers is still preferable to any number of Christian Nationalists.

www.mainepublic.org/maine/2025-0...
The number of Shakers in the U.S. rises to 3
And until a few months ago, there were only two members left at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village. Now a third has joined the celibate Christian sect.
www.mainepublic.org
August 22, 2025 at 9:30 PM
dribrats.bsky.social
You come for Sabbathday Lake, you best not miss
April 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
chasesolidago.bsky.social
So disappointed to discover this wasn’t more stories like the 4th-to-last Shaker. Reporter Stacy Chase came to Sabbathday Lake, wrote hornily about Shaker life & Brother Wayne, then he denounced his religion to run away with her in 2006

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He left the Shakers for love - The Boston Globe
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November 15, 2025 at 2:36 AM
playense4life.bsky.social
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty! #SabbathDay
November 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
runswithwolves.bsky.social
But as I said, the Sabbathday faithful’s position to the best of my understanding has always been that the doors will stay open till the last Shaker dies.
August 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
runswithwolves.bsky.social
The story is complicated, but one speculation as to what happened is (a) Brother Ted Johnson shows up at Sabbathday (b) The elders at Canterbury flip because think (falsely) that Brother Ted is into Shakerism for materialistic reasons… 1/2.
August 20, 2025 at 3:23 AM
runswithwolves.bsky.social
This is actually correct: the elders at Canterbury (when Canterbury was still running) declared that the Shaker Order was closed. The Community at Sabbathday Lake never accepted that decision, and has continued to keep its doors open to new members.
mpgphd.bsky.social Megan Goodwin @mpgphd.bsky.social · Aug 19
I don't know that they've ever been officially closed, tbh

there was a scandál a while back when one of the sisters ran off with a journalist, iirc? but every time I visited there was discussion of how they were due for a membership revival
August 20, 2025 at 3:03 AM
chi-bromptonite.bsky.social
*watches The Testament of Ann Lee once*
Becoming a woman of prayer Shaker furniture projects. Step-by-step plans for 31 traditional projects. Celibacy is the new cool and let's be clear. Celibacy is not for the lames, it's for the legends. Map showing walking directions to Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in Maine
January 19, 2026 at 3:41 AM
tmkeesey.bsky.social
TIL the Shakers are still around (although there are only three). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath...
Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 6, 2026 at 8:03 PM
paul-suitter.bsky.social
Assuming Shaker 🎵 didn't get to today? Really need @usltactics.com to know the last 3 Shakers live in village of Sabbathday Lake, ME, within the town of New Gloucester--itself between Portland & Lewiston (where the ❤️s played their open 🏆) visitmaine.com/organization... Check the logo in the link!
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The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village is home to the last active community of Shakers. The village includes the Shaker Museum and the Shaker Store. The Shaker Store is a gift shop offering Shaker handmad...
visitmaine.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:52 AM
lobstaman.bsky.social
Somali immigrants have revitalized parts of Lewiston/Auburn in Maine

The Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake has added another member to their community bringing their population to 3
October 29, 2025 at 12:04 PM
ricaoimhin.bsky.social
While you're at it, our great neighbors, the Shakers are having a little trouble. perhaps you could look into this:
www.pressherald.com/2025/02/18/g...
Grant freeze causes major setbacks for Shaker herb house project
The Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village's herb house revitalization project faces uncertainty in the wake of the federal grant freeze.
www.pressherald.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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June 21, 2025 at 11:45 PM