The World Comes to the Shakers
The vibrant colors of the New England autumn were coming into full display as two young boys traveled north with their father from Boston on Monday, September 24, 1860. Though we do not know if this trio—Albert and Lorenzo Randolph, with their father Paschal Beverly Randolph—traveled by railroad or horse-drawn coach or walked on foot, we know their destination was the Shaker village in Canterbury.