Day 1.101: 'Shakers' by Exile #3

[Exile #3 took this drawing and these words to school for show-and-tell today. The drawing is her version of this photo, and the words are what she remembered learning about the Shakers on our trip there this week. She was also quite taken with the pictures of the chairs hanging upside-down on the walls - which ever way up you look at them - well done locals grinned!]



They were farmers and milked cows. They made lots of things: shoes, clothes, oval boxes, stools and chairs. The oval boxes were very strong.

When they met together at church, they liked to sing and dance - sometimes they fell over. Sometimes they would eat popcorn and lemonade.

Their barn looked like cylinders stacked on top of each other.

They hung their chairs on the wall on special hooks - they also hung brooms on the hooks.

They called the village the "City of Peace" and they shared everything.

They all lived in one big house but there was one staircase for the girls and one staircase for the boys.

When they ate there was one table for the women and girls and one table for the men and boys and they ate in silence! The people in charge had their own room to eat in.

The 'sisters' would go down in the morning and make breakfast. It would be apple pie!

There was a bedroom for the kids and a bedroom for the men and bedroom for the women.

There was a school.

They didn't have TV.