Spring Shaker Forum

Join the Museum for an engaging annual weekend devoted to Shaker history and culture. There will be presentations by Shaker scholars, special activities, lodging and meals in the Great Stone Dwelling, and networking with colleagues and friends.

Overnight packages: Please call the Museum at (603) 632-4346. For pricing click here.

Non-overnight packages: Online registration is available below.

Museum Members: Use your member coupon code_Forum at checkout for the Member rate.

For our full schedule, click here. 

2022 Special Presentations 

Galen Beale-“’How do you know that?’ – Finding the foundation manuscripts for Beech Hill, the Reconciliation of Hervey Elkins and the Shakers”

Sharon Koomler– “Visionary, Teacher, Mother: Revisiting our Relationships with Mother Ann” 

2022 Presenters 

Jeffrey Brace– “Good Foundations: Early Hancock Shakers and the Laundry & Machine Shop”

Gerald Brewington– “Shaker Meeting Houses of the West: Doing Their Own Thing”

Robert Emlen– “The Picturesque Shakers”

Kerry Hackett– “‘For the Benefit of Believers Only’: The Mystery Behind 30 Medical Receipts”

Linda Johnson– “Animism, Animals, and Agriculture: Animal Husbandry in Nineteenth Century Shaker Religious Practice”

Richard Marshall– “Celibacy and Sexual Scandal”

Stephen Miller– “Shaker Ephemera: What is it? Where is it found? What use is it?”

Ned Quist– “Holes in the Fabric of a Shaker Village: Three Lost Buildings of Harvard”

Rebecca Soules– “Henry Blinn’s Museum: A Shaker Cabinet of Curiosities”

For our full schedule, click here.