As my fellow Seminar attendees know, the title of a Shaker hymn from Hancock ca 1850 which we sang in farewell to one another ’til next we meet. Sunday morning brought two final presentations for this year’s seminar:Â Rob Emlen presented “Picturing a Shaker Village:Â How the public imagined the Shaker Landscape in 1835″ and [...]
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What a busy third day we’ve had! And, best of all, the New England sun came out today!  It ended up quite hot by the afternoon making the afternoon sessions a challenge – not because the speakers weren’t interesting – but because the heat was trying to whisk us to dream land! After a nice [...]
Even the chipmunk and the bees welcomed us to Canterbury Shaker Village today for the third day of Shaker Seminar.  We had breakfast at the Great Stone Dwelling at Enfield Shaker Village, then drove to Canterbury where after a delightful lunch, we were split into groups and either explored on our own, toured an exhibit [...]
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JOY: the emotion of great delight or happiness caused by something exceptionally good or satisfying; keen pleasure; elation: She felt the joy of seeing her son’s success. ZEAL: –noun fervor for a person, cause, or object; eager desire or endeavor; enthusiastic diligence; ardor. Hubby and I have arrived for the first day of this summer’s [...]
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“I called to tell you your Aunt Betty has passed.” “I’m the last of 5 you know.” “I’m so upset about the news that I get confused. I’m the last standing of 8 you know.” “I don’t know why nobody called me.” “Do you know anything about it?” “Did you go to the funeral?” “I’m [...]
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Polish, strip, sort, arrange, clean, move, toss, paint, fold, wash, sand, shove. Swim, read, rest, gulp, sweat, squish. What are your summer verbs?
Just a quick post — a couple of photos of the Tall Ships in Boston here with SailBoston.  The crowds were thick, but mostly considerate. The lines were too long to get on any of them. But we went on a bus trip from our local town and enjoyed an hour and a half harbor [...]
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of the country I live in — Happy Birthday a few days late to the USA.  And in appreciation of the daughter and hubbie who fixed my site up when someone was unkind and made a mess of it…. thus the late posting!
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