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Country Life Festival at Enfield Shaker Museum Saturday, June 5, 10am – 4pm

Enfield, NH - For family fun, come to Enfield Shaker Museum’s Country Life Festival on Saturday, June 5, 10 am - 4 pm.

In the beautiful setting of the Enfield Shaker Museum, on NH Route 4A, on the west side of Mascoma Lake, adults and children will enjoy the following:

Animals and pony rides
Making fairy houses and kites
Watching craft demonstrations
Playing lawn games and flying kites
Taking garden tours
Viewing antique cars
Hoola Hooping
Listening to music by the band The Frost Heaves
Watching Cassavant Organ demostration in Mary Keane Chapel (12:30 p.m.)
Singing
Hiking trails
Buying local products and plants

Lots of refreshments will be served, including homemade ice cream, muffins, scones, lemonade, rhubarb punch (from the Shaker gardens), hot dogs, hamburgers, and cookies.

Admission is $6.00 per adult, $3/child aged 10-17; children under the age of 10 are admitted for free. Members of the Museum are $5.00.

Make it a weekend and take advantage of the special packages being offered for overnight stays in the Museum’s Great Stone Dwelling, built in 1837-1841, the largest Shaker dwelling house ever built.

The event is sponsored by the Enfield Energy Emporium, and A Fox Tree Service with additional support from the NH State Council on the Arts. Proceeds benefit the Enfield Shaker Museum, open year-round with a mission to protect, enhance and utilize its eight historic buildings and Shaker landscape.

The Museum is located on Route 4A, in the town of Enfield, between Andover and Lebanon. Free parking is available on the site.

For details, contact the Enfield Shaker Museum at (603) 632-4346 or email at Info @ ShakerMuseum.org.

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CONTACT: Patricia Loven, Office Manager
Enfield Shaker Museum
447 NH Route 4A
Enfield, NH 03748
(603) 632-4346
Info @ ShakerMuseum.org
www.shakermuseum.org

Enfield Shaker Museum is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational institution dedicated to interpreting and preserving the complex history of the Enfield Shaker Village and the Missionaries of LaSalette.

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