Because of the slow internet at the Holiday Inn in Boxborough Ma (hard to understand as it sits right next to Cisco); I didn’t get to do any blog posting this week while at seminar. Hubby and I have arrived home this evening and over the next few days, I’ll post a few photos and [...]
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Recently the Boston Area Shaker Study Group met at Hancock Shaker Village for lunch and leisure time, and then trekked to the Benjamin Osborn House located in Mt. Washington, MA. The Osborn House was the first stop on Mother Ann Lee’s “missionary” trip in New England in 1781. [...]
Today we hosted a lovely afternoon meeting of the Boston Area Shaker Study Group. The group is closing in on 30 years of folks meeting several times a year and learning about the Shakers (and for those who wonder or are ill-informed – yes, there are people living in community as Shakers). We enjoyed a [...]
What do World Monuments Fund, marriage break-up and the status of women in the 19th century, Green energy, Black Minstrels and a baby cow have in common? We are attending the 2010 Shaker Seminar being hosted this year at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, MA. It is the village’s 50th year as a museum, and [...]
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The best thing – and about the only good thing for me – about the late summer heat is that it forecasts that apple season is about here. There’s no apple in the world, that I’ve been to, that equals a New England apple.
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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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Today was the last day of the Spring Forum on the Shakers hosted by Enfield Shaker Museum that I talked about yesterday. I promised a few pictures: so here they are. Today was a terrific breakfast (the food this weekend was fabulous!), followed by a walking tour of the Great Stone Dwelling, with an organ [...]
I sit typing in a room used since 1857 as a spiritual meeting place by the Shakers of this community. How fascinating to sit in the middle of this room using wireless and a laptop in a space once used to observe one’s spiritual beliefs. I sit and imagine how odd it feels and wonder [...]
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