Dear Friends, In August 1892, Enfield Shaker Eldress and Church Family schoolteacher Mary Ella Briggs described her school’s closing ceremony: “One speaker told the scholars they had the cosiest, nicest school in town,” she wrote in the Shaker Manifesto. “They all looked bright as dollars and to the teacher…
Dear Friends, The large and venerable Golden Russet apple tree on the north side of the Museum’s herb and production gardens has seen better days. Several weeks ago, gravity did what gravity does, and the weathered tree’s trunk split. After learning this news, Museum curator Michael O’Connor and I walked…
Juneteenth, the national holiday just signed into law, commemorates the day Union troops arrived in Galveston Bay, Texas, and informed over 250,000 enslaved Black people that they were free. Two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation, six months after the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment, and two months…
Dear Friends, There are no words to express our gratitude. We are positively overjoyed by your response during NH Gives. Thanks to your support, we have raised a total of $19,200—almost TWICE our original goal—towards welcoming the coming season’s visitors. A lot of our hopes and dreams for this…
Dear Friends, It’s almost time! NH Gives starts tomorrow, June 8, at 5 PM, and we sincerely hope that from then until 5 PM on June 9 you will help Enfield Shaker Museum reach our goal to raise $10,000 to welcome 10,000 visitors. As we count down the hours until NH…
Dear Friends, Greetings! The past year-and-some has been long and exhausting, but this June we at Enfield Shaker Museum are preparing, once again, to open our doors for the season. We know that the pandemic has caused many changes, not only for us, but also for our friends, supporters, and…
Keep your eyes on the Stone Mill–even more preservation work is on the way, thanks to a New Hampshire Preservation Alliance Grant and the 1772 Foundation! Once the center of a large complex of agricultural and industrial buildings within the historic Enfield Shaker Village (1793-1823), Enfield Shaker Museum’s Stone Mill,…
Enfield Shaker Museum and Richard W. Couper Press are pleased to announce the establishment of a new publication series, based on the Enfield Shaker Museum’s annual Spring Shaker Forum. Beginning in 2022, the Forum’s annual proceedings will appear in print. We hope to publish selected papers from each year’s Forum…
Welcome to the announcement page for the Museum’s 2021 “Spring Forward” May Calendar Raffle! Winners are announced here daily at noon, along with Fun Shaker Facts. So check back every day in May for even more fun! In the video below we are BEYOND excited to announce our May 31…
