CONTENTS

SHAKER STUDIES

JANE F. CROSTHWAITE
The Spirit Drawings of Hannah Cohoon: Window on the Shakers and Their Folk Art, 1

KAREN K. NICKLESS and PAMELA J. NICKLESS
Trustees, Deacons, and Deaconesses: The Temporal Role of the Shaker Sisters, 1820-1890, 16

PRISCILLA J. BREWER
"Numbers Are Not the Thing for Us to Glory In":  Demographic Perspectives on the Decline of the Shakers, 25

BARBARA ROTUNDO
Crossing the Dark River:  Shaker Funerals and Cemeteries, 36

BENNETT LOWENTHAL
The Topolobampo Colony in the Contest of Porfirian Mexico, 47

KIT FIRTH CRESS
Communitarian Connections:  Josiah Warren, Robert Smith, and Peter Kaufmann, 67

FRANCIS SHOR
The Utopian Project in a Communal Experiment of the 1930's: The Sunrise Colony in Historical and Comparative Perspective, 82

COMUNITARIAN SOURCES

MARK F. WEIMER
The William A. Hinds American Communities Collection, 95

DALE L. FLESHER
The Angel and the Serpent: The Story of New Harmony, by William E. Wilson, 104

REGINA SIEGFRIED
The Shaker Spiritual Narrative, by Diane Sasson, 105

TIMOTHY MILLER
Communal Love at Oneida:  A Perfectionist Vision of Authority, Property, and Social Order, by Richard DeMaria, 106

CAROLYN C. BENNETT
Utopias, by Peter Alexander and Roger Gill, 108

SUSAN E. SEARING
Alternative Lifestyles:  A Guide to Research Collections on Intentional Communities, Nudism, and Sexual Freedom, by Jefferson P. Selth, 109

BOOKS NOTES 111

COVER

A Shaker group, probably at Canaan, N.Y.  From a stereopticon photograph taken by a Troy, N.Y. photographer and once part of the personal collection of William A. Hinds, a member of the Oneida Community and author of American Communities.  Courtesy of the William A. Hinds Collection, Syracuse University Library.