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 [...]
Tags: Hancock Shaker Village·Harvard·Meeting House·Shaker·Shakers
This post is long overdue – but I imagine anyone reading this has likely too much on their plate as well!! But what’s in your cup? When hubby and I were recently in Savannah, we went on a Foodie Tour – more about that another day, and one of the places we stopped was Perk [...]
Tags: coffee·Cold winter evenings·Perc·photo·Savannah·travel
A few photos as we pack up and ready ourselves for our return to New England work and weather tomorrow – what a great stay we had in Savannah! Southern hospitality is very real!
…a great day in Savannah that is! We had a quiet beginning because we both had some work to do and the weather report was for rain. Indeed it was raining. We started out about lunch in light rain and visited the Savannah Historical Museum and the SCAD Museum of Art. This first picture is [...]
As we walk back and forth each day to our bed and breakfast, actually depending on the cloud cover which so far (and we’re told is most times) is always there; we get peeks of the Chugach Mountains. This morning they were particularly majestic and bright in the bit of sun we were treated to [...]
Tomorrow morning we leave for Alaska! Another destination that has been on my personal list since I was a child; and one hubby and I have shared! As usual, I’m nervous about the flying part — never ever my favorite part of the event. But, with enough decongestant and airport food; I’ll forget! We hope [...]
Tags: Alaska·climate change·cruises·John Denver·packing·travel
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 [...]
Tags: black minstrels·cows·Green energy·Hancock Shaker Village·marriage·Shakers·World Monuments Fund
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.
Tags: apples·New England·Sabbathday Lake
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tags: Canturbury Shaker Village·covered bridge·Hancock Shaker Village·Shaker
