The Shakers are a religious group that came to America from England in 1774 led by Mother Ann Lee. The group grew until there were 18 Shaker communities in the eastern part of the country. Some of the ...

A historical quest that began with small-scale antique collecting and "just kept on expanding" has made Edward Deming Andrews, Berkshire native and summer resident, into perhaps the world's foremost ...

Professor John Anthony Kassay, who taught at San Francisco State University for three decades and wrote the "bible" of Shaker furniture, died Feb. 17 of pneumonia at his San Bruno home. He was 85.

When John J.G. McCue, a young Smith College physics professor, was invited in the 1940s to a dinner party in Marlborough, he had no idea it would lead to his forming one of the country’s important ...

Admittedly, there was more to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing than pegs, ladder-back chairs and quilts. The Shakers, as they were otherwise known, were an English ...

The interest in Shaker furniture keeps growing and prices keep rising. That was seen last month at Willis Henry’s auction when bidders who had never participated in a Willis Henry auction competed ...