CSPAN2 Elizabeth De Wolfe Shaking The Faith October 21, 2017
Paid much attention to dyer. They thought she was a crackpot, a lewin tuck. Who would write lunatic. Who would write books for 50 years decrying the shakers . Models of new england farm life and history. Yet as i read her text, i realized this isnt a woman whos insane, this is a woman whos angry. This was a woman who was placed in an untenable position as a woman in American Society in the first decades of the 19th century. The more i read, the more i realized this was more to this story than an angry woman trying to retrieve her children. Mary and joseph dyer were New Hampshire farmers living...