Emily Hilliard

Emily Hilliard is a writer and folklorist whose work has appeared on NPR, the blog for the Southern Foodways Alliance, and in the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Sweets. She teaches at the University of Michigan's New England Literature Program and was a 2014 Berea College Appalachian Sound Archives Fellow. She writes the pie blog Nothing in the House.

Essay – Issue 18

•Heavenly Work: The Fleeting Legacy of the Shakers

Ten years have passed since my first visit to Canterbury Shaker Village, but walking again past the apple trees and old wooden buildings, I’m struck by the same feeling. In this small settlement nestled among New Hampshire’s green, rolling hills,…