Greetings! Over the last year, so many people have walked the grounds of Enfield Shaker Museum. Some solitary strollers seemed lost in thought, but safe in the Museum’s comforting landscape. More determined walkers counted steps as they enjoyed the beautiful views this historic site provides. Though the Museum was closed…
November 12, 2020 | Enfield Shaker Museum Announces Election of New Members of the Board of Trustees Enfield Shaker Museum Board of Trustees President Bruce R. Stefany announced this week the election of four new members of the Museum’s Board of Trustees. “Each of the new members,” said Stefany, “provides…
Much of our effort here at Enfield Shaker Museum goes into investigating and recording and telling the history of the Shakers who lived on the site the Museum now protects. Yet we are history makers, too. Ever since 1986 (and even before), individuals have joined in common cause to establish…
With 4 consecutive days of frost predicted, these tomatoes were harvested from the museum’s gardens last Friday. They are an heirloom variety called Large Red, or sometimes Early Large Red. This variety was known in 18th Century France, was eaten by George Washington, and grown for sauce by Thomas Jefferson. Possibly the best known tomato variety in America in the first half of the 19th century, . . .
Dear Friends, Yesterday our extraordinary Garden Coordinator, Diana Kimball-Anderson, called me to my office window. “We have our first apple!” she exclaimed. I grabbed my smartphone and ran out of the Great Stone Dwelling to snap a photograph. The lawn south of the Great Stone Dwelling was once an apple…
Enfield Shaker Museum is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $78,610 grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities through funding provided by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act of March 27, 2020. The grant will support the Museum’s creation of a website portal…
Really, this is a post about signs. (I couldn’t resist the pun.) There are physical signs, like the new building signs now proudly displayed on many of the Museum’s buildings. Earlier this week I spent a lovely evening, before twilight, walking the grounds and taking these images, thinking about the…