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Some time after arriving in New York Harbor in 1774, the husband of Shaker founder Ann Lee left her and the group.
'Lee was alone in New York City unemployed, penniless, and living in a small, cold room. A single line from the Shaker chronicle conveys her situation: "She sat down upon the stone, without any fire, sipped her vinegar and wept." (Why she kept rocks for furniture and vinegar for drink is not clear.)'
— Mar 16, 2026 04:21PM
'Lee was alone in New York City unemployed, penniless, and living in a small, cold room. A single line from the Shaker chronicle conveys her situation: "She sat down upon the stone, without any fire, sipped her vinegar and wept." (Why she kept rocks for furniture and vinegar for drink is not clear.)'
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'The shift in attitude from the 1840s to today can be tracked in the library. Influential utopian novels of the kind written by Thomas More, Francis Bacon, Étienne Cabet, or Edward Bellamy are seldom read, let alone written, anymore, yet we require fifteen-year-olds to spend their holidays underlining paperbacks of Brave New Word and 1984, chilling visions of utopia run amuck.'
— Feb 12, 2026 06:01PM
