Thousands of Americans followed, " Mother Ann" Lee (1736-1784) into the religious group known as the Shakers. Eighteen Shaker villages dotted the young country in the Era of Good Feelings after the War of 1812.
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Shakers liked to sing. Do you know the song "Tis a Gift to Be Simple". Aaron Copeland, a famous American composer took that Shaker song and built a beautiful musical composition around it called "Appliachian Spring". You should listen to it sometime. The words to the song are also very simple, but they are not a part of the piece, only the tune is.
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