Calendar of Events

Guided tours of the Great Stone Dwelling are held Monday - Saturday, from 10:00 A.M., and on Sundays, from 12 noon. The last tour is at 4:00 P.M. daily. Self-guided tours of the site and use of the trails are also offered.

Make your own Shaker Broom! Using the equipment the Enfield Shakers used, you can make your own long-lasting wonderful broom! You will have an individual lesson with Susan Brown, who currently makes the brooms we sell in our gift shop.

Make your own appointment with Susan at 603-989-5931 and for only $50 (paid to the Museum) you can take your broom home.

Responding to a community need, the Museum is hosting the Farmers’ Market again this year on Wednesdays in the south lawn of the Great Stone Dwelling!

Chat with the vendors and select your favorite fresh local produce, meats, jams, jellies, flowers, crafts and prepared foods.

Each week a variety of music, entertainment and/or gardening classes will be offered.

Responding to a community need, the Museum is hosting the Farmers’ Market again this year on Wednesdays in the south lawn of the Great Stone Dwelling!

Chat with the vendors and select your favorite fresh local produce, meats, jams, jellies, flowers, crafts and prepared foods.

Each week a variety of music, entertainment and/or gardening classes will be offered.

This program has been planned specially for our local members and friends! Each Thursday, beginning September 16, join us for a program on the Shakers. Each program will be preceded with a reception including sandwiches, crudities and a complimentary glass of wine or other beverage. On October 21, the program will culminate with a Shaker-inspired dinner. Lectures will include Shaker Spirituality (Mary Ann Haagen, Sept. 16), Enfield Shaker Images (Carolyn Smith, Sept. 23), Enfield Shaker Medicinal Herbs (Galen Beale, Sept. 30), Shaker Music (Mary Ann Haagen, Oct. 7), Paint Colors and Symbolism in the Great Stone Dwelling (Dick Dabrowski, Oct. 14) and Shaker Archeology (David Starbuck, Oct. 21).

At this annual event, active volunteers from the past year are invited to attend a pancake breakfast, hosted by the board of trustees.

Vaudeville has a strong tradition in this state -- the father of variety theater, Benjamin Franklin Keith, was from New Hampshire. There were many vaudevillians in the Upper Valley, and they were popular among residents and tourists who came up on the train.

The Shakers also entertained themselves with their own variety shows and performances. We continue this family entertainment in the Museum's 19th century Stone Mill. Our program includes comedy skits, song, dance, and sing-a-longs!

A bake sale is included!

This program has been planned specially for our local members and friends! Each Thursday, beginning September 16, join us for a program on the Shakers. Each program will be preceded with a reception including sandwiches, crudities and a complimentary glass of wine or other beverage. On October 21, the program will culminate with a Shaker-inspired dinner. Lectures will include Shaker Spirituality (Mary Ann Haagen, Sept. 16), Enfield Shaker Images (Carolyn Smith, Sept. 23), Enfield Shaker Medicinal Herbs (Galen Beale, Sept. 30), Shaker Music (Mary Ann Haagen, Oct. 7), Paint Colors and Symbolism in the Great Stone Dwelling (Dick Dabrowski, Oct. 14) and Shaker Archeology (David Starbuck, Oct. 21).

This program has been planned specially for our local members and friends! Each Thursday, beginning September 16, join us for a program on the Shakers. Each program will be preceded with a reception including sandwiches, crudities and a complimentary glass of wine or other beverage. On October 21, the program will culminate with a Shaker-inspired dinner. Lectures will include Shaker Spirituality (Mary Ann Haagen, Sept. 16), Enfield Shaker Images (Carolyn Smith, Sept. 23), Enfield Shaker Medicinal Herbs (Galen Beale, Sept. 30), Shaker Music (Mary Ann Haagen, Oct. 7), Paint Colors and Symbolism in the Great Stone Dwelling (Dick Dabrowski, Oct. 14) and Shaker Archeology (David Starbuck, Oct. 21).

Enjoy a weekend of fun and festivities! Enjoy a Shaker Harvest dinner Friday night in the 1841 Great Stone Dwelling dining room. On Saturday, the whole family will participate in hands-on activities in the Old Stone Mill. Take a horse-drawn wagon ride and hunt for pennies in a haystack! Make your own cider, churn butter and crank your own ice cream! Create cornhusk dolls, pinecone feeders, no-bake cookies, and child-sized scarecrows! Dip hand-made candles and make bookmarks from natural materials. Traditional crafts, animal demonstrations, and a storytelling session by author Mary Lyn Ray will be included. Our harvest lunch includes Eldress Bertha’s Rosewater Apple Pie.

The Harvest Festival is sponsored by Clark-Mortenson Agency, Inc. and Family Pharmacy, Enfield.

This program has been planned specially for our local members and friends! Each Thursday, beginning September 16, join us for a program on the Shakers. Each program will be preceded with a reception including sandwiches, crudities and a complimentary glass of wine or other beverage. On October 21, the program will culminate with a Shaker-inspired dinner. Lectures will include Shaker Spirituality (Mary Ann Haagen, Sept. 16), Enfield Shaker Images (Carolyn Smith, Sept. 23), Enfield Shaker Medicinal Herbs (Galen Beale, Sept. 30), Shaker Music (Mary Ann Haagen, Oct. 7), Paint Colors and Symbolism in the Great Stone Dwelling (Dick Dabrowski, Oct. 14) and Shaker Archeology (David Starbuck, Oct. 21).

This program has been planned specially for our local members and friends! Each Thursday, beginning September 16, join us for a program on the Shakers. Each program will be preceded with a reception including sandwiches, crudities and a complimentary glass of wine or other beverage. On October 21, the program will culminate with a Shaker-inspired dinner. Lectures will include Shaker Spirituality (Mary Ann Haagen, Sept. 16), Enfield Shaker Images (Carolyn Smith, Sept. 23), Enfield Shaker Medicinal Herbs (Galen Beale, Sept. 30), Shaker Music (Mary Ann Haagen, Oct. 7), Paint Colors and Symbolism in the Great Stone Dwelling (Dick Dabrowski, Oct. 14) and Shaker Archeology (David Starbuck, Oct. 21).

Enfield Shaker Museum and Retreat Center

Each autumn, Writers Retreat Workshop invites grads to attend a special week-long writing retreat. Years past we've taken our retreat from New England to the desert of Arizona and volcano country of Oregon. In 2010 we return to October in New England, possibly peak leaf week, and the special Shaker Museum and retreat center, an intimate setting with a history that goes back almost 250 years.

In addition to the retreat, we are offering an intense weekend workshop experience prior to the start of the retreat. Jason Sitzes (writer, indie editor and Writers Retreat Workshop Director) and Lorin Oberweger (writer, indie editor and founder of Free-Expressions) will lead a workshop on manuscript revision. Both Lorin and Jason, in addition to working with dozens of writers (published and not-yet-published), serve as editors-in-residence for the Breakout Novel Intensive workshops led by top NYC literary agent Donald Maass.

Once your manuscript is complete, it's time to dig in and make those final checks. Your story is there... now what? What areas of the novel need your attention? How do you check consistency and logic of layers and subplots, and overall clarity? When you reached the end the entire beginning changed... how do you approach the untamed rewrite? We'll help you approach this revision (and all others after) with confidence, and offer tools to make sure your every moment of revision is time well invested. It's a time for you to give to your writing career and nurture your inner artist.

For more information, visit: http://writersretreatworkshop.com/fallretreat10.php

Or, head straight to the registration page to save your space now.

This program has been planned specially for our local members and friends! Each Thursday, beginning September 16, join us for a program on the Shakers. Each program will be preceded with a reception including sandwiches, crudities and a complimentary glass of wine or other beverage. On October 21, the program will culminate with a Shaker-inspired dinner. Lectures will include Shaker Spirituality (Mary Ann Haagen, Sept. 16), Enfield Shaker Images (Carolyn Smith, Sept. 23), Enfield Shaker Medicinal Herbs (Galen Beale, Sept. 30), Shaker Music (Mary Ann Haagen, Oct. 7), Paint Colors and Symbolism in the Great Stone Dwelling (Dick Dabrowski, Oct. 14) and Shaker Archeology (David Starbuck, Oct. 21).

Enjoy our pancake brunch, with apples and other toppings! Our day includes talks, demonstrations and games. Learn about how to pair cheeses, pears and apples together. Learn about the Shakers' apples. Activities will include apple bobbing, apple tasting, cider tasting and an apple pie contest. Check out our pies, candied and caramel apples, and cider donuts! Lots of pumpkins, too!

Join us for an evening of food, fun and festivities! The Upper Valley's top purveyors of fine foods will offer sample culinary works of art - "signature" appetizers, entrees and desserts. Complimentary wines and non-alcoholic beverages will be served. A fabulous auction, offering many high quality goods, services and experiences, will be offered, with the entertaining auctioneer Leigh Webb (retired assistant director from Hollywood).

Explore beautiful colors and patterns of a large array of local quilts. The weekend will also include demonstrators, a quilt appraiser, a pillow workshop, lunch, and raffles. This event is included in the general admission.

This annual meeting marks a special time -- the Museum's 25th anniversary! Members are invited to review the Museum's past achievements and share our vision for the future. Members have the benefit of voting on the Museum's governance.

The Museum and Store will be 10a.m.-4pm, Monday-Friday and 12 - 4pm Sunday. The Museum will be closed Dec. 25 and Jan. 1st.

In the 20th century, the Shakers decorated a tree for the holidays. Visit the Great Stone Dwelling and see a tree in every dwelling room! Vote for your favorite tree in the children's and adult categories. The two winners will each receive a $100 prize! The winners will be announced on Sunday, December 19, noon. If you would like to sponsor or decorate a tree, call the Museum.

Join us for a holiday celebration! The Great Stone Dwelling will be decorated for the holidays. Our Museum Store and Gallery will feature locally handcrafted items. Enjoy hot cocoa, music and more!

Enjoy a traditional holiday roast beef dinner in the historic Great Stone Dwelling with your family! The "stone house" captures the Shaker ideals of simplicity, spirituality and order. Catered by Stone Wall Catering.

Register by December 3.

Have your picture taken with Santa! Create your own greeting card! Explore the dwelling rooms - each has a tree for the holiday season! Vote for your favorite! Enjoy cocoa and look for bargains in the Museum Store.

...until the cookies are sold out! Select from more than 100 different varieties of homemade cookies – festively arranged for the season! Sold by the pound.

Come and enjoy your favorite Christmas songs at the Enfield Shaker Museum! Sing Along carols in the Dining Room from 1-2pm, deals in the gift shop all day, and vote for your favorite tree! Hot Cocoa and homemade Cookies.

Start the celebrations at 6:30 p.m. with cocktails, followed by a seated dinner and dance through the New Year!

Limited tickets; advance registration only.