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159 Sources and Background 159 Sources and Background T he essential sources for establishing the timing and sequence of events were contemporaneous documents—the minutes of the Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation and of its Shakertown Committee , the minutes of the Board of Trustees of Shakertown at Pleasant Hill, Inc., and the minutes of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees. These, together with reports, memoranda, letters, budgets, and other such documents of the time, provided the thread of the narrative. This material came from the Department of Special Collections of the University of Kentucky Libraries, from several large boxes stored at Shakertown, and from the files of the late Robert F. Houlihan, attorney for the Shakertown board. Also important were narratives written by Earl Wallace: “Shakertown at Pleasant Hill,” “The Shakertown Roundtable,” and an untitled typescript of accounts of events during the restoration of the Shaker Village. As quotations throughout the book show, much important information , with many insights and details, came from interviews and more informal conversations with persons who had various kinds of involvement with the Shaker Village and its restoration. The list includes Hilary J. Boone Jr., Jimmie Campbell, Thomas D. Clark, Richard DeCamp, Joseph C. Graves Jr., Carolyn Hammer, Susan Jackson Keig, the late Clay Lancaster, Vivian Landrum, Bettye Lee Mastin, Dixie Moore, Betty W. Morris, the late Louie B. Nunn, Evalina Settles, Robert F. Sexton, Al Smith, the late Betty Tenney, James C. Thomas, Bob Warren, the late William T. Young, and one person who wishes to remain anonymous. Also valuable were two video productions , Kentucky Educational Television’s tribute to Earl Wallace in the Distinguished Kentuckian series and Shakertown’s own Shaker Images 160 RESTORING SHAKERTOWN production, “James Lowry Cogar: A Living Tribute,” and an audiotape from Shakertown files of an interview with Cogar. Fortunately, the restoration of the Shaker Village received extensive continuing coverage in area newspapers. I drew on the Courier-Journal, the Harrodsburg Herald, and the Lexington Herald (later the Lexington HeraldLeader ) for a number of descriptive details that would have been long lost without their careful attention. With reference to the Shaker background as given in chapter 2 and chapter 3: Some of this information came from research material prepared at Shakertown early in the restoration project. In addition, of the many books that have been written about the Shakers, I found the following especially useful: Maps of the Shaker West: A Journey of Discovery, by Martha Boice, Dale Covington, and Richard Spence (Dayton, Ohio: Knot Garden Press, 1997); Pleasant Hill and Its Shakers, by Thomas D. Clark and F. Gerald Ham (Pleasant Hill, Ky.: Shakertown Press, 1968); Noble But Plain, by Jerry V. Grant (Old Chatham, N.Y.: Shaker Museum and Library, 1994); Old Shakertown and the Shakers, by Daniel Mac-Hir Hutton (Harrodsburg, Ky.: Harrodsburg Herald Press, 1936); A Walking Tour of Shakertown, by Bettye Lee Mastin, with illustrations by Patricia S. DeCamp (Lexington, Ky.: Richard S. DeCamp, 1969); The Shakers and the World’s People, by Flo Morse (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1987 [reissue of 1980 Dodd, Mead, and Company edition]); The Story of the Shakers, by Flo Morse (Woodstock, Vt.: The Countryman Press, 1986); The Kentucky Shakers, by Julia Neal (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1977); The Simple Spirit, compiled by Samuel W. Thomas and James C. Thomas (Pleasant Hill, Ky.: Pleasant Hill Press, 1973); Education and Recreation of the Shakers, by Sister Miriam Wall (East Canterbury, N.H.: Canterbury Shakers, n.d.). The Shakers and the World’s People, from which I drew several comments, is a particularly valuable anthology of material about the Shakers and was well described by one reviewer as “an indispensable storehouse .” I also received useful material from my friend Theodore Levitt, editor emeritus of the Harvard Business Review. In addition to the books mentioned here, those interested in further reading might also wish to take a look at The Shaker Experience in America, by Stephen J. Stein (New Haven , Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992). [3.84.110.120] Project MUSE (2024-03-29 16:28 GMT) 161 Sources and Background For the discussion of the evolution of historic preservation in the United States and differing points of view concerning it, I drew—aside from conversations with James Thomas, Betty Morris, and others—on a number of books, including Antebellum Houses of the Bluegrass, by Clay Lancaster (Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1961); Changing Places, by Richard Moe and Carter Wilkie (New York: Henry...