While at our Shaker Seminar (see previous week’s postings), we visited the museum of another communal society: the Oneida Community. While there I picked up a couple of books. I’ve just finished reading My Father’s House: An Oneida Boyhood by Pierrepont B. Noyes. It was written as a memoir – I expect it might be [...]
We arrived home last night from this year’s Seminar. It was about a 4 hour car ride home – actually not as tiring as we thought it might be after our busy week. There were two presentations between breakfast and lunch: The Story of Harvard Shaker Sister Susan Channel (1809-1880) presented by Roben Campbell and [...]
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: Our day started with a two hour bus ride to Sodus Bay to see what is left of a community that resided there for a short time — staying (I think I have this right) about 10 years starting in 1826. There are only three original buildings left on the site — the land [...]
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What a great day! Sitting and listening at conferences is always somehow wearying and exhilarating at the same time! Today’s lectures started with two that were really a pair as they were presented by the authors of a great new book about a particular Shaker collector couple: Book: Gather up the Fragments: The Andrews Shaker [...]
Tags: Hancock Shaker Village·Shaker
What a long, interesting and educational day! After a continental breakfast in the dorms (I always wish there was protein at American continental breakfasts), we headed off to the library at Hamilton College (a short walk up the hill). There we enjoyed a presentation of the Shaker holdings by Randy Ericson. We saw some really [...]
Today we enjoyed breakfast at our B&B – The Phoenix Inn – and then made our way to the Fenimore Art Museum. There was a fascinating exhibit of Jewish immigrant wood carvers of the early 20th century in New York showing their work both of carousel horses and Torah arks for synagogues: fascinating. And an [...]
Hubby and I left yesterday afternoon to take a short road trip on our way to Clinton, NY where Wednesday through Sunday we will be attending a Seminar on the Shakers. Yesterday morning we enjoyed a beautiful drive across Western Mass down to Stockbridge where we visited Naumkeag. This is one of the famous “cottages” [...]
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Tomorrow morning we leave on a road trip for a week. We’ll take the first couple of days to visit a couple of homes of the rich and famous: Naumkeag for instance. By Wednesday we’ll be in Clinton, NY at the annual Shaker Seminar taking place this year at Hamilton College. I’ll post as I [...]
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Just a brief note between hamburgers to say Happy Birthday to the country we live in! On our travels we met some really interesting people who were always interested in the US, the people, and our opinions of world events. On several occasions, people asked if we would like to talk about our country’s politics, [...]
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