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.
Entries Tagged as 'Site Seeing'
New England’s Beauty – Photo of the Week
August 19th, 2009 · No Comments · Shaker, Site Seeing, photo of the week
Tags: apples·New England·Sabbathday Lake
4 days, 4 museums, 4 inches of rain
August 6th, 2009 · No Comments · Art, Site Seeing, travel
It’s taken me more than 4 days to get organized to get this posted! Last week, hubby and I enjoyed four museums in as many days (and I want you to know this isn’t a record as we’ve done this many in one day in Paris!).
First we went over to Williamstown MA to see the [...]
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 [...]
Tags: Canturbury Shaker Village·covered bridge·Hancock Shaker Village·Shaker
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 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 [...]
Tags: scholarship·Shaker·Shaker cooking
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 – Day 1
July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Itinerary, Shaker, Site Seeing, travel
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. [...]
On the Road Again
July 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Itinerary, Site Seeing, travel
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 can!
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Happy Birthday America!
July 4th, 2008 · 2 Comments · My Goals, Site Seeing
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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Let’s do the numbers…
June 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Itinerary, Sabbatical trip, Site Seeing, travel
We’ve been home for over a week now, yet we’re still adjusting in many ways.
We seem to be back on the right time zone, which thanks to the ocean crossing really went pretty easily. We arrived only about 2 – 3 hours off. We still seem to want to eat different amounts [...]
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