By spring, a multi-year renovation of the Schoolhouse at the Canterbury Shaker Village should be completed. The work included a new roof, repair and partial replacement of deteriorated clapboards, gutters, rainwater leaders and the repainting and restoration of 26 windows.

The project was funded by a variety of donors. Among those who participated in the work was Jake Farmer of Farmer’s Historical Repairs, who was responsible for the windows. For Farmer, the work was personal. His great-grandmother stayed at the village in the 1920s.

“My great-great-grandparents had a house fire and lost everything,” he said. “They could only afford to keep the younger siblings, so the Shakers took my great-grandmother in before she went back … after two years.”
~ Robert Levey, for the Village