September 2020
Thursday Things: The New England Kitchen
3:00 pm The smell of cooking, one historian wrote could evoke a whole civilization. The New England Kitchen with its open hearth, iron pots, and cranes, was a place of creation and conviviality, of smells both pleasant and putrid. As cooking stoves replaced hearths in the 19th century, the term…
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Museum Guided Tours: September 24-27
11:00 am, 1:00 pm, and 3:00 pm Join one of our dedicated Museum interpreters for a guided tour of the Great Stone Dwelling and Museum grounds. Due to social distancing requirements, tours are open to nine participants and must be booked 24 hours in advance. Members please enter the coupon…
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Furniture Restoration
Gary Wood has been professionally restoring furniture for more than 40 years and has a wealth of knowledge to share, in this workshop you will practice re-gluing, basic repairs, and replacements needed before finishing. Explore techniques of color matching and refinishing. Learn about the materials and techniques used throughout history,…
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Tuesday Tour: Enfield Church Family Barns
1:00 pm Join us for a tour of the remaining Enfield Shaker Church Family Barns. Start in the 1854 Cow Barn with a discussion of this barn as a classic example of the traditional Shaker great barn, in fact it is the only extant wooden Shaker great barn. Then head…
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All at Home: A Taste of History
7:00 pm EST Continue Enfield Shaker Museum’s “Cider and Cheese Festival” tradition this October with our “All at Home: A Taste of History” Zoom Talk and Tasting Series! Celebrate Fall on the first four Thursdays in October, and enjoy New England food and beverage talks while tasting pairings of cider…
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Fall Pie Sale
11:00 am Pie sales have long been an Enfield Shaker Museum summer tradition! For the first time this fall, we will be offering savory and sweet homemade pies for sale. Drive on by the Great Stone Dwelling and pick one (or three) up! Cost: $20.00 per pie
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