We’re very familiar with the Shakers. We lived for ten years in Harvard Massachusetts on South Shaker Road, a short distance from the side of a former Shaker community. We also toured the majority of the Shaker communities in the Northeast, always impressed with the simple elegance of their architecture, furniture, and organization and focus of their community. So it was like finding a treasure hidden in the boonies oto come upon a historical market pointing to the former South Union Shaker community. Of about 200 buildings built to support a community of about 350 Shakers, half a dozen remain intact of which 3 open as a museum.