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In November 1960 the noted scholar of Shaker life
and craft, Edward Deming Andrews, wrote to Thomas
Merton offering assistance with a book on the Shakers
that he had heard Merton was planning. Though
nothing came of that book, the ensuing correspond-
ence between Merton and Andrews, and after
Andrews’ death in 1964 with his widow and
collaborator Faith, itself became a spirited and spiritual
examination and celebration of the lives and legacy of
the Shakers.
Here for the first time Dr. Paul M. Pearson, Director
of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University
in Louisville, Kentucky, introduces and brings together
both sides of this correspondence, allowing the reader
to delight in both the interplay of ideas and inspiration,
and the growth of sincere affection, that occurred
between Merton and the Andrews through their shared
vocations.
The correspondence is supplemented by a selection of
Merton’s photographs of the Shaker Village of
Pleasant Hill in Kentucky (newly identified by captions
provided by Larrie S. Currie, Curator at Pleasant Hill),
many made before the restoration of “Shakertown”
that forms a backdrop to the correspondence.
Merton once observed, “The peculiar grace of a
Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by
someone capable of believing that an angel might come
and sit on it.” To read these letters is to experience a
meeting of angels, coming to rest for a moment in the
contemplation of the simple, but to this day deeply
challenging, gifts of the Shakers.
and craft, Edward Deming Andrews, wrote to Thomas
Merton offering assistance with a book on the Shakers
that he had heard Merton was planning. Though
nothing came of that book, the ensuing correspond-
ence between Merton and Andrews, and after
Andrews’ death in 1964 with his widow and
collaborator Faith, itself became a spirited and spiritual
examination and celebration of the lives and legacy of
the Shakers.
Here for the first time Dr. Paul M. Pearson, Director
of the Thomas Merton Center at Bellarmine University
in Louisville, Kentucky, introduces and brings together
both sides of this correspondence, allowing the reader
to delight in both the interplay of ideas and inspiration,
and the growth of sincere affection, that occurred
between Merton and the Andrews through their shared
vocations.
The correspondence is supplemented by a selection of
Merton’s photographs of the Shaker Village of
Pleasant Hill in Kentucky (newly identified by captions
provided by Larrie S. Currie, Curator at Pleasant Hill),
many made before the restoration of “Shakertown”
that forms a backdrop to the correspondence.
Merton once observed, “The peculiar grace of a
Shaker chair is due to the fact that it was made by
someone capable of believing that an angel might come
and sit on it.” To read these letters is to experience a
meeting of angels, coming to rest for a moment in the
contemplation of the simple, but to this day deeply
challenging, gifts of the Shakers.
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