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In Time and Eternity: Shakers in the Industrial Age

Going for an Evening Ride, Sabbathday Lake, 1913

Going for an Evening Ride, Sabbathday Lake, 1913

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United Society of Shakers

Friends often came down from the Poland Spring Hotel to accompany members of the community on automobile rides. On the left is the community's first car, a Silent Seldon purchased in 1909 from Fred A. Nickerson of Portland for $2,100. Elder Delmer Wilson is at the wheel. The passenger in the front seat of the second car is Elder William Dumont.