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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 comments. For now, here’s many of the attendees in front of the Harvard Shaker Meeting House, now a private home. Thank you to the owner for a closer look at a spectacular historical building!
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In just a few days, I’ll be blogging again while hubby and I attend the annual Shaker Seminar. Before that, however, I want to post a little memory in honor of my father-in-law who passed this past week. I’d known him for the close to 40 years I’ve been married to his son. He was a gentle and incredibly intelligent man (he was an expert in Russian radar during some important years), and loved his family beyond measure. As we both aged, I found myself often thinking how much I was getting to know the husband I had at the same time I was getting to know him. My hubby and his father not only looked a great deal alike, but had many quiet hidden aspects to their personalities as well. I knew from the first time your son brought me home to meet you that if he was anything like you, I’d picked a really good thing! Thanks for being in my life. Thanks for being in our lives. We will all miss you.
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Hubby and I went to a great fundraiser evening for the Turners Falls River Culture — if you missed it, you missed some great fun! There was great eats and drinks, a silent auction and a live auction (auctioneer was Lou Ekus of Holy Smokes – great auctioneer by the way!)!
The hats had been on display in several local places. I had a good look at them when they were in Wilson’s Department Store windows, and thought well, it’s a fundraiser, I’ll think about it.
We arrived and chatted with some folks. By the way, I do think hubby and I did pretty good coming up with clothing to go with the Black Tie and Blue Collar theme. The picture at the end of the post isn’t the greatest of us (are pictures taken with automatic, run and get in front of the camera fast pictures ever good ones?); but you can see our costumes. Hubby wore dress shoes, jeans, a rumpled shirt and the vest and black tie that goes with his tuxedo. I wore the usual black dress with flannel shirt and my red cowgirl boots. Fun to dress up and down at the same time.
So, did I guy a hat? You bet. Here’s the pictures. The artist is Daniel A Brown — wonderful hat! I’m not sure anyone should pay what I paid for a dressed-up hard hat — but it was a great cause. I live in the next town over from Turner’s Falls; but it’s a little town going places with culture.
Bravo!
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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 it is a sweet place waiting for money and restoration before time takes more of a toll.
Osborn House
One does not need to be religious and to believe in a certain God to feel spirituality. It was moving to me to be inside this structure, almost exactly 230 years after Mother Ann and join in a short song of that religion. Those of us who love history know what these moments can be.
Friends
We toured the premises, a local gravesite, Richard read from the Testimonials sections that were relevant, and a few even braved the basement.
(Not original, but lovely)
A lovely day as always.
P.S. Rich and I went on to BashBish Falls where we hiked a 300 foot vertical drop via steel cable to the falls (we did take the slightly less difficult path back up).
300 feet down...
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It’s a bird. No, wait — it’s a plane. No, wait — it’s a horse. NO WAIT — it’s a zebra! A zebra? It’s Vermont. Are you sure it’s not a horse? Nope, it’s a zebra? Are you sure? YEP!! A zebra in Vermont.
