Some pieces in the Shaker Museum collection beg to have their stories told. This three-legged stool with its calf-skin covered leather saddle-like seat is certainly one of them. The apparently one-of-a-kind stool was acquired by the Museum’s founder John S. William, Sr. di...

If you’re a gardener, hopefully your vegetables are growing vigorously and starting to produce. Perhaps you bought your seeds from the local Agway, or ordered them online, or saved them from last year’s harvest. Through the first three-quarters of the nineteenth...