I know the house well. Thanks for featuring it. Concerning Shakers, I had a close friend and academic colleague, Helen Upton who is known for her book The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984)., who made an annual trip to Canterbury, NH. Her house in Brunswick, NY was one occupied by Shakers and most of the furniture in it was Shaker. She slept on a Shaker rope bed & straw mattress. She died in 1993 and her estate sale brought in $4 million not counting the many pieces willed to the Shaker museum in Hancock, NY. Her dining room table was worth $100,000 in 1993, yet she drove simple VW Jetta, manual shift and handcranked windows. Friday afternoons Helen and I would talk history over a glass of Taylor Cream Sherry. I inherited her Jetta, drove it for a year and gave to a person that needed a car.
I know the house well. Thanks for featuring it. Concerning Shakers, I had a close friend and academic colleague, Helen Upton who is known for her book The Shakers: Hands to Work, Hearts to God (1984)., who made an annual trip to Canterbury, NH. Her house in Brunswick, NY was one occupied by Shakers and most of the furniture in it was Shaker. She slept on a Shaker rope bed & straw mattress. She died in 1993 and her estate sale brought in $4 million not counting the many pieces willed to the Shaker museum in Hancock, NY. Her dining room table was worth $100,000 in 1993, yet she drove simple VW Jetta, manual shift and handcranked windows. Friday afternoons Helen and I would talk history over a glass of Taylor Cream Sherry. I inherited her Jetta, drove it for a year and gave to a person that needed a car.
Witches in New Ipswich?! That's hard to believe.