One Year on the Road

Main walkway in the village.

The Meeting House.

Very plain inside. No podiums, because there were no leaders.

This woman sang so beautifully from the doorway.

We explored the village musueum, which had been a dormitory.

A loom in one of the main rooms.

Hand-made towels.

A worker was making a table runner.

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This loom was used for rag rugs.

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The kitchen.

Typical Shaker containers.

Window view.

Bottles on a sill.

Infirmary room.

If you look closely, you&#039;ll see an early wheel chair: one wheel in the back.

Hand-made baskets.

Photo of a round barn in another vilage. Shakers invented the round barn.

Typical Shaker furniture.

Shaker seeds.

Shaker attire.

Built in shelves in the upstairs hallway.

Home-made barrels and buckets.

They often painted wood.

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Shaker-made chairs.

Later on, the village opened an inn.

This giant cradle was used for elders in the infirmary.

Antique dealers had a different idea.

More barrels.

Broom-making machine.

Brooms.

Woodworking equipment.

More of the grounds.

Many of the buildings are now part of an inn.

A worker demonstrates caning a chair.

Beautiful grounds.

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Wagon rides are offered.

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They still keep a small farm and garden.

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Shaker boxes in the gift store.

Original stone fences.

Chipmunk on the fence.

Leaping!

And landing.

What a pastoral place!