American Communal Societies Quarterly is published four times a year by the Richard W. Couper Press, the publishing arm of the Hamilton College Library special collections. Editor is Randall L. Ericson. This issue published January 2010. Articles include: “Strangers Along the Trail: Peoria’s Shaker Apostates Enter the World” by Patricia L . Goitein; Benn Pittman’s “Visit to the Shaker Settlement – Whitewater Village, O.” introduction by David D. Newell; “Cummings and Goings”: The Impact of Shakerism on the Family of Edward T. Cummings” by Mary Ann Haagen; Hamilton College LIbrary “Home Notes” Visiting the Shakers, 1850-1899 Goes to Press; Communal Societies Collection: New Acquisitions.
Front cover has illustration of The Ballance Family, ca. 1852, oil on canvas by James Wilkins in Peoria. Depicted are Charles and Julia Ballance and seven of their children. Back cover has 1855 broadside in both English and German, advertising sale of Inspirationists’ lands in Ebenezer. Issue includes illustrations of relevant historical places, figures, and documents. 14 cm x 22 cm.