Join Shaker Village for their annual Fall Harvest Festival, Monday, October 14, from 10 am to 4:30 pm.
The event is free and features tours, craft demonstrations, wagon rides, live music, food trucks, cider and doughnuts, and books, pumpkins and seasonal plants for sale – and much, much more.
Here’s what you can look forward to:
- Freshly-picked apples from the historic Shaker orchards will be offered for sale along with free cider-pressing (of apples purchased there).
- Homemade Shaker doughnuts and other baked goodies.
- Chipman’s Farm, neighbors to the Shakers since the 1790s, will have a farm bounty available for sale, including pumpkins!
- Seasonal mums, other late-season “bloomers” and houseplants will be available from Donna’s Greenhouse.
- LIVE MUSIC ~ Bluegrass tunes by Albert Price and the Pseudonyms
- Free, traditional craft demonstrations include fiber art, spinning, knives by Zay’s Knives, rug hooking and supplies by Two Cats and Dog Hooking, Native American artists and crafters including Lightning Hawk Creations, Wendy Hamilton, and Passamaquoddy Maple. Bee Keeping demonstration with observation hive.
- Paul & Sally Wells will be playing music from 19th century Maine, including fiddle tunes and Shaker melodies.
- Book signing by Maine author Don Perkins, Barns of Maine.
- Tintype portraits by Cole Caswell, Maine Arts Commission Fellow.
- Book sale and perennials by Mary Doyle.
- Free wagon rides will be offered throughout the day with narrated tours of Shaker Village.
- Free tours and smelling/tasting in the Shakers’ Herb Gardens.
- Free tours of the Shakers’ barn by Brother Arnold.
- Free face painting for all ages!
- Free lawn games.
- Free museum exhibits.
- BBQ lunch plates from Maplewood BBQ
- Red Barn food truck – best seafood & chicken in Maine!
- Fred’s Fried Dough truck
- Cotton candy & popcorn available for sale
Come enjoy this fun-filled day for all ages at Shaker Village, 707 Shaker Road in New Gloucester, on Monday, October 14.
— from Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village on Facebook
