Greetings from Shaker Village at Pleasant Hill!
How's 2021 treating everyone so far? We made it to Shaker Village a couple hours ago and had just enough time to drop our stuff in our room and go out and take a few photos with the last hour or so of sunlight. I'm writing this on my phone (a first for me) and thought I'd throw up a few phone photos to give y'all a taste of the place to tide you over until I can do a proper post.
It's a neat little place that's been here since the early 1800s. The Shakers were a celibate, religious society and an offshoot of the Quakers. Their first missionaries arrived in central Kentucky in 1805 and their converts soon set up their own communities, of which Pleasant Hill was one.
I will get more into the history of this place in my next post when I've had time to see and read more.
We had to visit with the animals on our walk
And a few more, of the farm and some of the other scenery.
We're staying in one of the buildings here, the Old Stone Shop that was built in 1811.
Among other things, the Shakers were noted for their craftsmanship, particularly woodworking. It's been rather neat looking at how everything is put together. Time to track down some vittles, I will post more soon so stay tuned!
Colonel strikes again with stellar shots. Congrats on the reward here, it's nice to see. That blurry goat has to be my favorite.
2021—so far so great.
Ha, mine too! Thing kept moving, every shot of it is blurry. Thanks!
No complaints here yet either but it won't take much to be better than this year just past.
From the walk to get food
My 2021 is going very well and I see that yours too, you are visiting a very beautiful and quiet place
Nice! Quiet and peaceful and beautiful, I wish we could stay longer :)
If it were me I wouldn't want to go back either, nothing like a good day's rest.
That goat's like, ain't no way you're getting an in-focus shot of me y'all.
Yeah, it'd hold still just as long as it thought it was about to get fed or petted and not a second longer. Which sounds just about right for goats...