NH Gives
2022-06-07 17:00 - 2022-06-08 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online
Support Enfield Shaker Museum during NH Gives!

We at the Museum are committed to continuing to provide educational and impactful experiences to our guests. We’re constantly adding new opportunities to explore the Shaker way of life, including our soon-to-be-released smartphone-guided tours, new exhibits, and expanded digital programming.
We would be honored if you chose to support the Enfield Shaker Museum with a gift during NH Gives.
To learn more about Enfield Shaker Museum’s NH Gives Campaign, click here!

Opening Day 2022
2022-05-21 10:00 - 17:00 | Enfield Shaker Museum, 447 NH Route 4A, Enfield, NH, 03748, United States
The Enfield Shaker Museum will be opening for weekend visits on May 21st!

Tour the buildings, visit the gardens, check out our new exhibit, and more! We can’t wait to see you at Enfield Shaker Museum!

Spring Shaker Forum
2022-04-22 - 2022-04-24 | Enfield Shaker Museum, 447 NH Route 4A, Enfield, NH, 03748, United States
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.

Shaker Sunday Takeout Dinner Fundraiser
2022-03-27 15:00 - 17:00 | Enfield Shaker Museum, 447 NH Route 4A, Enfield, NH, 03748, United States
Enfield Shaker Museum is once again thrilled to partner with B&W Catering Company to offer three unique dining experiences this winter! We’ve shared our Shaker recipes with Chef Brent Battis and are excited to taste his Shaker-inspired creations.
Each monthly Takeout Dinner (January, February, and March) will include a short video from Chef Brent with information on the recipes, cooking processes, and reheating instructions!
Takeout dinners will be available for pickup on the last Sunday of the month at the Great Stone Dwelling from 3-5 pm.
Museum Members enjoy a 5% discount that can be applied with your Member Coupon Code at the point of checkout.
Not a Member yet? Become one today: https://shakermuseum.org/support/membership/

January 30 Dinner Menu (order by January 26)
Sister Content’s Corned Beef Hash / onions, peppers, mushrooms, and local butter
Baked Tomatoes / local aged cheddar and House-made breadcrumbs
Cracker-Crusted Cod Fish Cakes / local cider-rich fish sauce
Sister Sally’s Sour Cream Cornbread / whipped Styx and Stones honey butter
The Sweet Stuff
Sister Lettie’s Maple Pie / whipped sweet cream

February 27 Dinner Menu (order by February 23)
Gold Potatoes in Cream / with rosemary, parsley, dill, and local butter
Woods Cider Mill Boiled Cider-Infused Carrots / thyme and butter
Brother Irving Greenwood’s Pot Roast / pan gravy
Sister Lettie’s Buttermilk Biscuits / whipped butter
The Sweet Stuff
Shaker Cider Pie / Woods Cider Mill boiled cider, nutmeg, and whipped cream

March 27 Dinner Menu (order by March 23)
Canterbury Shaker Parsnips / brown sugar and local butter with fresh thyme
Butternut Squash / ginger and orange peel
Fried Chicken Supreme / Walpole Valley Farms free-range chicken, House-made breadcrumbs, and local cream
Eldress Bertha’s Applesauce
The Sweet Stuff
Eldress Bertha’s Funny Cake / butterscotch, roasted pecans, and coconut

From the Collection: Cheese Presses
2022-03-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join curator Michael O’Connor for Cheese Presses, the second of our 2022 online presentations focusing on objects in Enfield Shaker Museum’s collection. These presentations provide in-depth investigations of Enfield Shaker Village material culture, identifying and comparing common and not-so-common features of Enfield-made objects. After each presentation there will be time for questions and further discussion.

Shaker Chair Seat Weaving
2022-03-12 13:00 - 16:00, 2022-02-19 13:00 - 16:00 | Enfield Shaker Museum, 447 NH Route 4A, Enfield, NH, 03748, United States
Learn to weave a chair with Shaker tape and help Enfield Shaker Museum! In all Shaker communities, fabric tape was preferred over rush or wood splint for chair seats. Fabric tape is longer lasting and is simple to weave. Any chair seat with rails on all four sides may be woven with tape.
Our wonderful reproduction Shaker ladderback chairs, used for all events and meetings, need some tender loving care. Using one of our chairs and chair tape, we will teach you the art and mystery of chair seat weaving. Or you can bring tape—or purchase tape in our Gift Shop—to reweave your own chair, for a modest fee.
All participants will need to bring scissors and a hammer.
Free for participants who will be weaving Museum chairs
$25 for participants weaving their own chairs
Class size limited to 10. Advance registration required.

Museum Board president and expert Shaker chair weaver Carolyn Smith leads this workshop.

Weather-Wise Book Club: The Year Without Summer
2022-03-03 19:00 - 20:30 | Online
The Museum’s Weather-Wise project continues! Funded by New Hampshire Humanities, this project helps us examine the impact of weather and longer-term climate change. In 2021, we inaugurated the project with four online lectures about weather and its documentation, and its impact on historical events and in art.
This winter we are offering a Weather-Wise book club and our community-curated exhibition based on Enfield Shakers and the weather.
Our first book is Guinevere Glasfurd’s The Year Without Summer: One Event, Six Lives, A World Changed (2020). Recently longlisted for the 2021 Walter Scott Prize, you can read a book review here.
We’ll discuss this intriguing novel in a hybrid meeting at 7 pm on March 3, 2022. This event is free, but please register below.
Thank You to Our Supporter:

From the Collection: Enfield Shaker Rugs
2022-02-24 12:00 - 13:00 | Online
Join curator Michael O’Connor for Enfield Rugs, the first of our 2022 online presentations focusing on objects in Enfield Shaker Museum’s collection. These presentations provide in-depth investigations of Enfield Shaker Village material culture, identifying and comparing common and not-so-common features of Enfield-made objects. After each presentation there will be time for questions and further discussion.

Members Only: Preservation Updates in the Great Stone Dwelling
2022-02-23 14:00 - 16:00 | Enfield Shaker Museum, 447 NH Route 4A, Enfield, NH, 03748, United States
Join preservation volunteers Richard Dabrowski and Paul Waehler for an in-person members only behind-the-scenes tour of ongoing preservation projects in the Great Stone Dwelling.
Not a Member yet? Become one today: https://shakermuseum.org/support/membership/

Kids' Maple Sugaring Kit
2022-02-14 - 2022-02-18 | Enfield Shaker Museum, 447 NH Route 4A, Enfield, NH, 03748, United States
Sponsored by the Brundage Foundation
Every year during late winter, the Enfield Shaker Brethren and boys went out to tap thousands of sugar maple trees. Carrying on this tradition, Enfield Shaker Museum is offering a maple tap kit for kids this February.
The kit includes supplies for tapping one backyard maple tree and other maple-themed activities. Contents include a maple tap spout, sap bag holder, and a 4 gallon sap bag. All you will need is a 7/16″ drill bit.
Kits are free, but numbers are limited. Please register below.
Kits will be available for pickup February 14-18. To arrange a pickup time, email education@shakermuseum.org or call (603) 632-4346.
