LOCAL AUTHOR ANN SAYERS will read from her newly published book "Their Name is Wicks...": One Family's Journey through Shaker History. Sayers will talk about the Shakers as well as other social and religious experiments in upstate New York during the mid-1800s.

The Wicks story focuses on the lives of a family of 12 who joined the Watervliet/Albany Shaker community in the autumn of 1824. The drama reveals much about the Shaker world, but also provides a bigger picture of how ordinary people lived during the middle of the 19th century.