May 5, 2018 — The Shaker Village in Canterbury, New Hampshire opened for the season today. For their opening day they featured a "Heifer Parade," a herd of heifers driven from their winter quarters at Brookford Farm to their summer home at the Village. The morning was cool with a strong wind, but it warmed up nicely in the afternoon. This has been an unusually cold spring, and trees on the Village property were just beginning to bud, and Village gardens had hardly gotten started.
Also on the agenda was a maypole dance which was a happy train wreck of miscues, tangled lines and general confusion, but fun. Dudley Laufman & Friends provided musical accompaniment to the maypole dance, followed by a square dance.
All activities and entrance to some of the Shakers' historic buildings were free for the day. Demonstrations and lessons in rug hooking and braiding were presented in the Sisters' House, and spinning and loom operations were in progress in the Spin House.
The day offered many good photo ops and I tried to take advantage of them with a video and two pages of photos which can be seen at this link:
https://www.linwoodstreet.com/shakers2018/
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