Table Monitor of the Shakers at Mt. Lebanon, N.Y.
Mt. Lebanon, NY: Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village, 1868. Two column broadside, 27.5 x 21.5 cm. A poem of eight numbered stanzas, which appeared as early as 1830, and is attributed to Hannah Bronson. A later printing included this explanation, "The foregoing hymn was composed by Hannah Bronson, a Shakeress, in consequence of a story being circulated that the Shakers put some kind of seed into their cakes." Rumor had it.....