Museum Receives Save America’s Treasures Grant. Enfield Shaker Museum has received a $129,667 matching grant from the Department of Interior, National Park Service funded through the Historic Preservation Fund and…
Enfield Shaker Museum is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a $49,943 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities through funding provided by the American Rescue Plan…
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,…
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…
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…
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, . . .
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,…
In the very first year of Enfield Shaker Museum’s existence, when then-director Carolyn Smith’s desk was a folding table in the Great Stone Dwelling’s front hall, a young historian walked…
In January of 2019 the Enfield Shaker Museum received a donation that funded the purchase of one of the original Enfield dining room tables at auction at Sotheby’s in New…
Restoration of built-ins in the Great Stone Dwelling has been ongoing the last few years. Visitors enjoy seeing our woodworkers working to restore the unique features of the building, repairing…