The New Three R’s
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…
Thank you for joining us for NH Gives!
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…
Join us during NH Gives in raising $10,000 to welcome 10,000 visitors this season!
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….
Message from the Museum: Late June Edition
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…
In Memoriam: Gregory Schwarz, 1951-2020
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…
Message from the Museum – Volunteer Appreciation Week
Dear Friends, Of the many duties I have, this is one of the best. THANK YOU! We are grateful that you have enthusiastically volunteered your talents and your energy to…
Message from the Museum
Dear Friends, Take a turn around Twitter or Facebook, or catch the news, and you will find evidence of a rapid rise in yeast buying. Raising bread dough is lowering…
Message from the Museum
Dear Friends, The Shakers lived by the three C’s: celibacy, community, and confession. In 1894, Mount Lebanon Shaker Ernest Pick humorously played on these three C’s in his advice published…