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Friday 25 September – part four: isn’t this the line to get food?
Soon we were crossing the state line back into New Hampshire…
…. and then we made our way across this very ornate bridge…
We saw a little colour in the trees as we drove along…
I can imagine give it another week or two, and this part of New England will be a blaze of colour.
Now you’ll see in these pictures that there wasn’t that much traffic on the roads…
… remember this for later. We turned off the main road for the Canterbury Shaker Village, and we found out the real reason why it’s called the Shaker Village when we encountered the road there. My goodness, it was a real bone shaker!
We found it easily enough…
… parked up and headed into the museum store to get our fridge magnet, and pay for our admission…
We decided to go to the restaurant, and get something to eat before we started our self guided tour, but unfortunately two coach loads had just been dumped there.
We ended up in what we thought was the line to get food, but it was the line for the coach party to pick up their picnic lunches. Once we got out of that, we had the place to ourselves to pick what we wanted. It was a limited selection for me, as all the sandwiches had meat in them so I ended up going for the chipotle sweet potato soup, which was good, but a little spicy, with a roll…
Mark had the clam chowder, which I couldn’t have, as it had bacon in it…
We also had an oatmeal and raisin cookie each, which were beautiful.
We decided to head upstairs, as the tour groups were downstairs, and we had the whole place pretty much to ourselves, until a few people came up just as we were finishing.
As we came out, you could hear the noise of what we assumed were the NASCAR drivers practicing nearby. It sounded like they were in the next field over, it was so loud! I was texting with Marnie, and she’d caught the practice on TV, which was a bit surreal. I dread to think how loud those races are, if you actually attend them from what we heard today, and we were about two and a half miles away, from what I could make out from Google Maps…
We headed into the complex…
.. and went into the exhibition centre, where annoyingly you couldn’t take any photos. I hate it when places do things like that, as it really helps me to remember what you’ve seen, and it’s a nice souvenir. It essentially explained about how the Shaker community was set up. They had a film about it, and of course it was midway through when we entered, and there were lots of people watching it, so we had to tiptoe around, so as not to disturb them.
We headed over to the school house next, where you can watch a video from a girl who lived in the community, and what I took away from it was how much she enjoyed the life there. She talked about huge open expanses of land to run around in, which for a child, was just amazing, and shortly we’d see just what she meant.
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As far as I know, the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community in Maine is the last one with active members. I think there are three people living there now.
Accordingly to my trusty DK guidebook to New England, they describe "a handful of residents" who still live there. You can apparently tour the village and the museum and see the Shaker furniture.
The variety of houses at Strawberry Banke is incredible. I would truly enjoy walking through each. Your meal did sound very nice, but bummer that Mark's was not so good.
I couldn't help but think, oh they ate upstairs where it's less crowded - just like Columbia Harbour House at WDW!
There's an old school house not far from us here in WI that our kids have all gone to on a school field trip. Looks just like that one!
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We turned off the main road for the Canterbury Shaker Village, and we found out the real reason why it’s called the Shaker Village when we encountered the road there. My goodness, it was a real bone shaker! 
so I ended up going for the chipotle sweet potato soup, which was good, but a little spicy, with a roll… 
I was texting with Marnie, and she’d caught the practice on TV, which was a bit surreal. 
I dread to think how loud those races are, if you actually attend them from what we heard today, and we were about two and a half miles away, from what I could make out from Google Maps… 
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