The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God
The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God is a 1984 documentary film by Ken Burns.
Ann Lee
Ann Lee( 29 February 1736 – 8 September 1784), commonly known as Mother Ann Lee, was the founding leader of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, or the Shakers.
After nearly two decades of participation in a religious movement that became the Shakers, in 1774 Ann Lee and a small group of her followers emigrated from England to New York.
After several years, they gathered at Niskayuna, renting land from the Manor of Rensselaerswyck, Albany County, New York( the area now called Colonie).
They worshiped by ecstatic dancing or" shaking", which resulted in them being dubbed the Shakers.
Ann Lee preached to the public and led the Shaker church at a time when few women were religious leaders.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Mary Marshall Dyer
Mary Marshall Dyer (1780-1867), was a voice for the largely forgotten Anti-Shakerism sentiment in rural New Hampshire.
In 1813 she joined the Shakers of Enfield, New Hampshire.
Disappointed in her lack of a leadership role and frustrated by the constraints of Shaker life, Dyer left the community in 1815.
Her husband, Joseph, remained as did all five of the Dyer children.
Mary Dyer accused the Shakers of alienating her from her children.
Fearing for her children's safety and left without any means of financial support, she gave public talks and wrote tracts against the Shakers in an attempt to gain public, and legislative, support for her cause.
Her principal writings included "A Brief Statement of the Sufferings of Mary Dyer" and "A Portraiture of Shakerism" in 1822.
In 1819, she raised a mob to storm the Enfield Shaker Community to take her children back, but this effort failed.
Joseph Dyer remained devoted to the community and criticized her in strong terms, responding in print to his wife's published accusations.
Four of her five children remained Shakers for life.
Her son, Jerrub, left the Shakers late in life, but did not appear to have a close relationship to his mother.
By the 1850s Dyer's anti-Shakerism seemed extreme, in New England at least where the Shakers were now considered "quaint" rather than dangerous.
Mary Dyer died a largely forgotten figure in 1867.
She is the earliest known example of an activist working to counter the practice of what today is commonly known as "parental kidnapping" or "parental child abduction."
However, in the early nineteenth century, a married mother with a living husband had few legal rights over her children; the husband was their legal guardian.
And when he indentured their children to the Shakers, Shakers became the Dyer children's legal guardians.
Thus the Shakers' holding of the children was legal under the law of that time and place.
Given those laws, Mary Dyer was the parent who attempted kidnapping.
Unlike others who also published books on Shaker-related parental kidnappings and lobbied for laws against such practices involving Shaker parents (Capt. Joseph Smith, 1810; Eunice Chapman, 1819), Dyer took an active part in assisting others involved in such cases and in educating the public about what she saw as the anti-family ideology and activities of the Shakers.
Her activism reached from 1815 until her death in 1867.
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Jesse E. Hobson
Jesse Edward Hobson( May 2, 1911 – November 5, 1970) was the director of SRI International from 1947 to 1955.
Prior to SRI, he was the director of the Armour Research Foundation.
Ken Burns
Kenneth Lauren Burns (born 1953) is an American filmmaker, known for his style of using archival footage and photographs in documentary films.
His widely known documentary series include "The Civil War" (1990), "Baseball" (1994), "Jazz" (2001), "The War" (2007),  (2009), "Prohibition" (2011), "The Roosevelts" (2014), "The Vietnam War" (2017), and "Country Music" (2019).
He was also executive producer of both "The West" (1996, directed by Stephen Ives), and "Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies" (2015, directed by Barak Goodman).
Burns' documentaries have earned two Academy Award nominations (for 1981's "Brooklyn Bridge" and 1985's "The Statue of Liberty") and have won several Emmy Awards, among other honors.
Margaret of the Mother of God
Margaret of the Mother of God, born Margriet van Noort( 1587 – 1646), was a Dutch Discalced Carmelite lay sister in the Brussels Carmel.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.
Olav Aaraas
Olav Aaraas( born 10 July 1950) is a Norwegian historian and museum director.
He was born in Fredrikstad.
From 1982 to 1993 he was the director of Sogn Folk Museum, from 1993 to 2010 he was the director of Maihaugen and from 2001 he has been the director of the Norwegian Museum of Cultural History.
In 2010 he was decorated with the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.

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