The shrine is built on the site of the former Shaker community of Enfield, with part of the property restored as a fascinating museum to the Shakers, dedicated to extraordinary craftsmanship, like these simple but beautiful miniatures painted by one of the more artistic members of the community.
Make sure you visit the birthplace of Calvin Coolidge, our thirtieth President, (most impressive presidential site I have seen). Here’s the simple room he was born in:
Make sure you visit the birthplace of Calvin Coolidge, our thirtieth President, (most impressive presidential site I have seen). Here’s the simple room he was born in:
And the extraordinary Union Christian Church he prayed in, the first example of "Carpenter Gothic" I have ever seen.
And the simple grave he was buried in.
When Calvin Coolidge was still a young member of the the Great and General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (before he was elected Governor) he insisted to his fellow legislators that God was the true author of all good order and that "Men do not make laws, they do but discover them."
Finally, in Tamworth Village, New Hampshire there’s a lovely "country doctor" museum on a working farm which reflects on the medical care provided by two generations of "Doctors Remick." This is the chair on which you would sit to have your tooth pulled (or experience all sorts of other procedures).
And by the way, try to pick a day to visit when it is less than one hundred degrees out!
