From their wide-ranging inventions to precisely engineered architecture, Shaker culture has had an enduring influence
. When Carol Reichert and Jerome Shereda purchased the 78-acre property in 2020, only the Brethren’s Workshop and the Chair Factory, both remnants of one of Mount Lebanon’s eight “families,” were recognizable.
Reichert and Shereda have put nearly $2 million of their own capital into Sassafras Farm, which opens this summer as a museum, overnight lodging, and performance space. “We would like people to leave with a more expansive view of the Shakers’ contributions to American life,” says Reichert. “This is an incredible part of our history, by a group of spiritual people who created monumental things.
Executive director Lacy Schutz can’t wait for visitors to see unusual artifacts including a platform shoe created for a sister with a leg-length discrepancy and a 19th-century rocking chair repurposed into a wheelchair. “Among the Shakers’ core values was a belief that everyone should be able to participate fully in his or her community, regardless of physical ability and age,” she says.
Last summer, a newly cleared trail to the village’s South Family site revealed, for the first time in 60 years, the foundations of six other buildings, including a maple sugaring house and an additional banked barn.
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