Ok, since Micaela vetoed the Yellowstone posts, I guess I will have to travel somewhere else for this post. So, I guess it is Kentucky's time. Woot! I went to Kentucky in fall of 2008. I have to amazing and wonderful friends that live there. Megan and Erica, and they are two of my absolute favorite people on the whole entire planet. I spent the few days after thanksgiving with them. We went hiking in Red Rock Canyon, and to the Shaker Village near Lexington. This post is going to be about the Shaker Village.
Okay, I guess Wikipedia might be needed a bit. At the peak there were something like 6,000 shakers, and by the '20's only 12 communities. There is 1 active community today, with 3 members. But since they refrain from, well, procreation, they had very hope in bolstering their numbers that-a-way. They had to rely on converts. They are known for their craft work and other artistic/crafty things.
This staircase has been photographed a lot. There are probably several like them in all the old Shaker Villages. But they are really cool, and there was a matching set of them.
So because men and women were segregated, there were doors for each sex. This was the same with stairways and rooms. Men had theirs and women had theirs and they both open in to a common room.
As it was a village, they had a bunch of the old buildings restored. The kitchen, the cellars, the meeting house, and the farm buildings all were very interesting to see. The farm had been restored and they had many of the animals that you would have seen in the Shaker Villages. The highland cow was supremely awesome. The goat tried to eat my coat. And the turkeys looked kinda mean. And there were some small children that may have been antagonizing them, and the turkeys wanted revenge.
I thought the goat sticking it's neck through the fence was just the head floating... creepy!
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