Timewatch

Timewatch· Season 9 · Episode 7

I Don't Want to Be Remembered As a Chair

S09E07·October 17, 1990·50m·BBC Two

On the shore of Sabbathday Lake in Maine lives a religious community of nine men and women. They are the last practising Shakers - members of a sect once persecuted for its dissenting beliefs and celibate lifestyle. Granted unique access, Timewatch explores their struggle to maintain their religious and historic identity while furniture made by previous generations of Shakers breaks saleroom records around the world.

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