Story Circle Network
Austin Chapter
Reader's Guide

February 2002
Simple Gifts

Simple Gifts: Lessons in Living from a Shaker Village
by June Sprigg

  1. Other than celibacy, what differences do Shakers, Quakers, and Amish have?

  2. What customs of the Shakers would be important to you?

  3. Would you, at nineteen years of age, have wanted to stay in a Shaker village for a summer?

  4. Have you had an experience similar to this? Have you visited a Shaker village?

  5. Did you like this book?