(Searsport, ME) Emmy award-winning journalist Jeannine Lauber will present an illustrated talk on “The Untold Story of America's 21st Century Shakers” on Sunday, February 21st from 3:30 to 5:00 pm at Left Bank Books located at 21 East Main Street in Searsport. The program is the second in the bookshop's winter lyceum, a series of six informal talks on Sunday afternoons, all free and open to the public.

Best known as a prime time anchor for the ABC News affiliate in Portland, Lauber attended her first Shaker worship service 15 years ago. She had recently moved to Maine from Ohio and was looking for a church to join when a neighbor directed her to "a great little church" down the street. That church was the House Church at Sabbathday Lake, the only remaining Shaker community in Maine and in the country. Although Lauber didn't become a full-fledged member of the Shakers, she did become a regular at weekly worship, intrigued by their history and deeply moved by their faith. In hindsight, she says, finding her way to the Shakers was not a coincidence but a calling.

“I can be a tenacious reporter,”she laughs, “and I just had an old-fashioned reporter's instinct that there was something more going on (with the Shakers). Spending 25 years as a journalist had gotten me ready to sink my teeth into this story.” The story is that the Shaker movement is very much alive. While the Shakers themselves are very few in numbers, their key beliefs are still vibrant, finding new life in a “post-modern” Christian church that holds that faith is about “doing something”, not just believing.

Lauber's talk will cover Shaker history and beliefs on such topics as faith, worship, work and community and the Shakers' place within the broader spectrum of American religion. She will also share some of the oral histories and photographs made during five years of research at Sabbathday Lake. All of her interest and study has resulted in a recently published book, “Chosen Faith, Chosen Land: The Untold Story of America 's 21st Century Shakers”, which she will be signing.

Jeannine Lauber has spent nearly three decades as a broadcast journalist and is the winner of multiple Emmy awards as well as an Edward R. Murrow Award for investigative reporting. She lives with her family in Casco , Maine . For more information about Sunday's program, other talks in the "Winter Lyceum" series, or to reserve a copy of Lauber's book, please call Left Bank Books at 548-6400.

>link to Left Bank Books website

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