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THE NEW YANKEE WORKSHOP
  • The Shaker Bookcase -
  • Episode DNYW-1604

    AIR TIMES
    June 07, 2008
    9:00 PM Eastern
    June 08, 2008
    1:00 AM Eastern
    This bookcase will surprise many fans because it is unlike most Shaker designs. Elder Green built the original unusual cupboard in 1898 to contain a particular selection of documents in the Shaker Community library in Sabbathday Lake, Maine. Green built his bookcase of butternut and walnut and included a complicated cornice, built of several moldings. Norm revised the original, making it somewhat shorter and narrower and built his of cherry.