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New England’s Beauty – Photo of the Week

August 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Shaker, Site Seeing, photo of the week

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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Farewell dear Crossbearers

July 27th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Musings, Shaker, Site Seeing, travel

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:  Rob Emlen presented “Picturing a Shaker Village:  How the public imagined the Shaker Landscape in 1835″ and Steve [...]

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A glorious day in the village

July 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Musings, Shaker

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 breakfast, [...]

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We make you freely welcome…

July 24th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Communal Societies, Musings, Shaker, Site Seeing, travel

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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Shaker Forum on a Sunday

April 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Communal Societies, Shaker, travel

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 [...]

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Shaker Spring Forum

April 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Communal Societies, Shaker, Site Seeing, Uncategorized, travel

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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A quiet moment with the Shakers

September 26th, 2008 · No Comments · Shaker

This past Wednesday I went over to Pittsfield to Berkshire Community College to attend a seminar presented by  Dr. Stephen Brookfield on critical thinking.
After spending the morning at a local Head Start program, I carved out an extra few minutes (not as easy as it sounds as it’s a 1 1/2 hour drive each way [...]

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Shaker Seminar – Last and final Day (this year)

July 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments · Shaker, travel

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
Mount Lebanon’s [...]

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Shaker Seminar 2008 – Day Four

July 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Shaker, Site Seeing, travel

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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 has [...]

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Shaker Seminar 2008 – Day Three

July 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments · My Goals, Shaker, travel

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 Collection [...]

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