What will Kentucky Book Festival visitors find on your table?
Copies of Shaker Made: Inside Pleasant Hill’s Shaker Village will be on the table. Shaker Made is award-winning fine art photographer Carol Peachee’s poetic tribute to the spiritual community that lived, created, and worshiped at Pleasant Hill, KY, during the nineteenth century. Over 180 beautiful black and white images exalt the Shaker’s blending of craftsmanship with devotion within the architectural interiors and exteriors, and cultural artifacts from the Village museum, making this book both documentary and a meditation on beauty.
Whom do you invite to stop by? Who will benefit from reading your book?
Anyone interested in folk art, religious studies, photography, American art, Shaker culture, American history, Utopian communities, decorative art, museum studies, historic villages, etc.
Could you please tell us something curious about you and/or your book?
This book is specific to Pleasant Hill Shaker Village and includes only items with provenance to Pleasant Hill. Carol Peachee visited Shaker Village for decades and the book includes photos from 1990’s film through current digital. Also, the book was just named a finalist for the National Indie Excellence Award – photography category.
Is this your first time participating in Kentucky Book Festival? If yes – what are you looking forward to the most? If you’ve participated before – what was your favorite experience at the Festival?
Carol Peachee attended the festival years ago when it was held at the Alltech Arena and is looking forward to engaging and interacting with attendees and sharing valuable and important information about the book.
