Free Thursday Growing in Popularity

Mrs. Mary Allen, WCHS Shaker Curator, tells a group of girls scouts and other visitors about the Shakers of Union Village.
 

It took a while for Free Thursdays to catch on, but for the last several weeks mixed crowds of students and adults have joined us on Thursday evenings from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm. Each Thursday the crowd enjoys a different lecture about Warren County History.  This evening our Shaker Curator, Mary Allen, gave an introductory talk about our Union Village Shakers who were a major part of Warren County's history from 1805 until about 1916.  The Warren County Historical Society has one of the largest Shaker collections of furniture, artifacts and archives in the country.

Our own Ohio Senator Rob Portman is a Shaker scholar and has written a book about the Union Village Shakers called Wisdom's Paradise. The book is available for sale in our book shop.