Ron Bear, in purple, leads a Round Dance on Saturday with the Burnurwurbskek Singers and Drummers at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester during the Wabanaki Marketplace celebration. The event is held at the world’s only active Shaker community, whose own basketry traditions and knowledge of herbalism were learned from the Wabanaki people more than 250 years ago. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Frances Soctomah, a Passamaquoddy artist, chats Saturday with a visitor to the Wabanaki Marketplace at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester. The Wabanaki Marketplace featured 40 nationally recognized artists from the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Micmac and Maliseet communities. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Visitors to the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village in New Gloucester during the Wabanaki Marketplace celebration look at the great barn Saturday. The barn is lifted onto cribbing while work is being done to prevent the building from collapsing. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Monty Kappes, 3, of Hallowell pets a sheep Saturday at the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village during the Wabanaki Marketplace celebration. The event is held at the world’s only active Shaker community, whose own basketry traditions and knowledge of herbalism were learned from the Wabanaki people more than 250 years ago. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

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