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Going Analog And Getting Artsy: Programming In The Academic Library, Lisa A. Forrest

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At Hamilton College's Burke Library, innovative programming has been implemented to highlight the creative work of Hamilton’s students and faculty. Apple & Quill provides opportunity for students to participate in writing workshops and analog makerspace activities (such as book making), and publicly share their writing through organized reading events in the library. As a result, the series has attracted students and faculty to the physical library building, forged new personal connections, improved collaborations with campus partners, and engaged the community with the library.

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An Interview With Marc Demarest

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The back cover is an illustration from Henry Steel Olcott’s People from the Other World (Hartford, Conn.: American Pub. Co., 1875).

A Gold Blossom: Practice, Rhetorical Invention, And Spirit Control In Amanda Jones’S Psychic Autobiography, Elizabeth Lowry

American Communal Societies Quarterly

Born in 1835 in East Bloomfield, New York, Amanda Theodosia Jones has been described as a teacher, inventor, businesswoman, poet, and Spiritualist. Jones engaged in many intellectual and artistic practices over her lifetime, but her autobiography details how each was informed by the one practice that she considered to be her true calling: her spiritual practice as a psychic medium. Her work as an autobiographer reveals how she attempted to contextualize her achievements and interests to demonstrate how they were unified by the guiding principles of the spirit world. As such, I aim to examine Jones’s practice and self-representation from …

Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"

American Communal Societies Quarterly

Hamilton College recently added a number of titles by Paschal Beverly Randolph to the Communal Societies Collection:

1. Dealings with the Dead: and Cynthia in the Soul World. New York: Published at the Office of the “Way of the World,” 1861-1862.
2. After Death: the Disembodiment of Man. The World of Spirits, its Location, Extent, Appearance, the Route Thither, Inhabitants, Customs, Societies, also Sex and its Uses There, etc., etc.: with Much Matter Pertinent to the Question of Human Immortality. Boston: Randolph and Company, 1870.
3. P.B. Randolph, the “Learned Pundit” and “Man with Two Souls”: His Curious Life, Works, and …

From The Editor

American Communal Societies Quarterly

An overview of the July and October 2015 issue.

Light And Dark Sides Of Spiritualism: The Eddy Brothers And The Shakers, Christian Goodwillie

American Communal Societies Quarterly

In his 1899 work Manifestation of Spiritualism Among the Shakers Elder Henry Blinn reflected on the marvelous events that dominated life in Shaker communities from 1837 into the 1850s. Looking back on these events fifty years later Blinn realized that what the Shakers experienced was but a precursor to the popular movement called Spiritualism that swept America and Europe in the second half of the nineteenth century.

In fact, the experience of the Shakers as progenitors of, and then participants in, the Spiritualist movement, is far more complex than Blinn’s retrospective stated. This article will examine one dimension of that …

A Bibliography Of Shaker-Authored And Shaker-Related Articles In Spiritualist Periodicals, David Newell, Cass Nawrocki

American Communal Societies Quarterly

This beginning bibliography of periodical articles relating to Shaker Spiritualism is but a small piece of a much larger project: A new bibliography of monographs and articles by and about the Shakers currently being compiled under the leadership of Randy Ericson. The nearly two hundred articles about Shaker Spiritualism were obtained from three primary sources. First, Mary Richmond in her bibliography Shaker Literature (1977), cataloged about thirty articles and we have included them here, often with additional comment. Second, we also found numerous articles in a variety of other digital collections including the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection. Third, …

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Contents of the July and October 2015 issue.

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The front cover shows the gilt stamped decoration on the front board of Paschal beverly Randolph’s Eulis!: the History of Love, its Wondrous Magic Chemistry, Laws, Modes, Moods and Rationale (Toledo, Ohio: Randolph Publishing Co., 1874.)

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Contents of the July and October 2015 issue.

A Young Shaker Among The Eddys

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An account of an unnamed Shaker brother’s visit to the Spirit Vale at Chittenden, Vermont. The visit occurred after William and Horatio Eddy had fallen out with each other, and the farm was occupied only by Horatio and his faction. The picaresque narrative was apparently written down by Elder Henry Blinn in May of 1876 from a recounting given by the unnamed adventurer who walked the gloomy country roads seeking to witness spirit materializations. The manuscript was apparently later donated by Alonzo Hollister to the American Society for Psychical Research, as the docketed information supplied on a covering sheet is …

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Contents of the April 2015 issue.

Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"

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Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions

1. Act of Incorporation for Universal Friends. Dated November 3, 1801.

Progress Report On The New Shaker Bibiliography, Randall L. Ericson

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It has been five years since I first annouced that a new Shaker bibliography was in the works. Along with my colleagues Christian Goodwillie, David Newell, and Cassandra Nawrocki, I began working on this project in earnest in 2008. I believe it will take another two to three years before it is finished.

Most of us are familiar with the bibliography created by Mary Richmond and published in 1977, so one might ask why a new Shaker bibliography is needed. Why not just create a supplement to cover the years since Richmond’s bibliography? Indeed there has been a great deal …

A Chapter On The Shakers: Reprint, Isaac Hill

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Reprinted from Farmer’s Monthly Visitor 11, no. 4 (April 30, 1849): 55-58.

In this unsigned article Isaac Hill describes a number of the Whitcher family members who lived at Canterbury, N.H., with particular attention to John Whitcher. Hill, as editor of the Farmer’s Monthly Visitor, wrote regularly about the Shakers in New Hampshire, always from a sympathetic viewpoint. He was certainly the author of this article. He also describes a visit by Henry Blinn’s sister. Hill cites the value of the education the Shakers provide for their children, names the individual children in the current class, and records autobiographical …

Aviation’S Heartland: The Flying Farmers And Postwar Flight, Peter Simons

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In 1944 the National Flying Farmers organized at Stillwater, Oklahoma. The organization took advantage of aviation's wartime growth to promote flight as an integral part of agricultural life that would modernize production, break down social barriers, and give farmers greater access to markets. It also built on aviation's roots in the agricultural landscapes of the Midwest and Great Plains as well as the strategic role these spaces would come to play in the Cold War. In addition to giving farmers greater control over their land and work, flight was more broadly imagined to connect the agricultural heartland with consumers abroad, …

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Front cover illustration: Jemima Wilkinson, leader of the Universal Friends. For the Act of Incorporation for Universal Friends.

From The Editor

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An overview of the April 2015 issue.

Beyond The Back Room: The Role Of Metadata And Catalog Librarians In Digital Humanities, Lisa M. Mcfall

Book Chapters

Many professors and students are surprised to learn about the variety of skills metadata and catalog librarians possess that can benefit their digital humanities projects. Metadata and catalog librarians already have experience in areas such as developing project metadata schemas and controlled vocabularies, as well as providing suggestions for project organization, and have the basic abilities needed to support learning new skills such as XML and TEI. This chapter will offer perspectives on how a metadata and catalog librarian can contribute to digital humanities projects. A case study focusing on the involvement of the Metadata and Catalog Librarian with the …

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Information relating to the publisher, publication frequency, editorial staff, purchase options, submission requirements, and contact information for the American Communal Societies Quarterly.

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Front cover illustration: Peace: One Nation, One Language, One Flag, One Speech. [n.p., n.d.]. A poster from the Father Divine collection recently added to the Communal Societies Collection, Hamilton College Library.

From The Editor

American Communal Societies Quarterly

An overview of the January 2015 issue.

Non-Simplicial Decompositions Of Betti Diagrams Of Complete Intersections, Courtney Gibbons, Jack Jeffries, Sarah Mayes-Tang, Claudiu Raicu, Branden Stone, Bryan White

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We investigate decompositions of Betti diagrams over a polynomial ring within the framework of Boij-Soederberg theory. That is, given a Betti diagram, we decompose it into pure diagrams. Relaxing the requirement that the degree sequences in such pure diagrams be totally ordered, we are able to define a multiplication law for Betti diagrams that respects the decomposition and allows us to write a simple expression of the decomposition of the Betti diagram of any complete intersection in terms of the degrees of its minimal generators. In the more traditional sense, the decomposition of complete intersections of codimension at most 3 …

Voices That Heard And Accepted The Call Of God, Stephen J. Paterwic

American Communal Societies Quarterly

A review of: Shaker Autobiographies, Biographies and Testimonies, 1806-1907, edited by Glendyne R. Wergland and Christian Goodwillie. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. 3 volume set.

Hamilton College Library "Home Notes"

American Communal Societies Quarterly

Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions

1. Father Divine and International Peace Mission Movement Collection
2. Shaker Manuscript Hymnal from New Lebanon, New York
3. [Holmes, James]. [Collection of Anthems Given by the Spirits, 1837-1848]. [Sabbathday Lake, Me.: Printed by James Holmes, 185-?]. 29 pp. 17.5 cm.
4. Shaker Broadsides concerning A Holy, Sacred, and Divine Roll and Book

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Contents of the January 2015 issue.