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Rituals and Traditions

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Living a Tradition

At Sabbathday Lake in Maine, the eight members of the only surviving Shaker community carry on the old ways

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Bang! Bang! You’re Dead

Dueling at the drop of a hat was as European as truffles, and as American as mom’s apple pie

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“She Said Yes! She Said Yes! She Said Yes!”

How a few brave and smitten souls got up the courage to declare their love and propose in public, and then lived to tell about it

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