To be a Shaker

Hancock Shaker Village Rona Chang

This is the last photo from Hancock Shaker Village. If I were dressing up for Halloween this year, maybe I would be a Shaker. I never dress up, I just can't seem to get into it. Maybe it's because I never dressed up as a kid. Ok, that's a semi-lie. I was Strawberry Shortcake in second grade. The costume was too small and borrowed from my best friend Mimi. When I visited Hancock, I really put myself in the setting and thought that I could be a Shaker, in terms of aesthetics and communal living, not religious belief. The communal kitchen was to die for. I would have liked to make my own yarn, knit and make linen out of flax.

For those of you heading out tonight, be safe and have a blast for me.