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fromAdvocate.com
4 days ago

Hidden History: This nonbinary minister was a hero of the American Revolution

Public Universal Friend reanimated Jemima Wilkinson’s body and led a radical Universal Friends movement demanding equality, self-determination, and a frontier utopia.
Los Angeles
fromLos Angeles Times
22 years ago

Avant-garde colony reborn as a 1950s suburb

Winnetka evolved from a 1920s utopian communal experiment founded by Charles Weeks into a family-oriented suburban community with affordable 1950s ranch-style homes attracting diverse residents and investors.
fromKqed
4 months ago

Entrancing 'Testament of Ann Lee' Relays the Shakers' Saga in Song and Dance

As Vincent Minnelli and Bob Fosse artfully demonstrated, music and movement - song and dance - are powerful vehicles for not only conveying deep emotions but enrolling audiences in leaps of joy and amazement and flights of mind. Daring to dare is the sentiment at the heart of a movie musical, and the quality that moviegoers respond to. The Testament of Ann Lee isn't exactly a musical in the sense that the songs don't tell the story.
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