Shakertown At Pleasant Hill Kentucky Inc

Dining services: shaker village features a dining experience that is well known for friendly service and shaker-inspired recipes. Dining on the property is considered to be a vital component of the educational experience of our guests. Featured dishes include locally grown vegetables, fruits, and meats. The dining service maintains and interprets a large garden located just outside of the dining facility. The garden produce is used to create many of the dishes featured in the dining room. Through this activity shaker village is better able to interpret the sustainability aspects of the shaker lifestyle.

Lodging: guests at shaker village may also take advantage of a unique opportunity to lodge within the historic buildings. Rooms have been decorated in a minimalist fashion to feature shaker-designed furniture and to offer the same peaceful atmosphere that many of the original shaker journals document. Our goal is to provide experiences to our guests that help them fully understand the shaker life and the relevancy that experience still holds today.

Craft sales: traditional crafts are an important component to the experience at shaker village. Guests may engage with interpreters to make boxes, brooms, barrels, and baskets as well as rugs, intricate weavings, and other fiber arts items. This is important to our educational initiatives but we have also been able to offer the guests the opportunity to purchase these items through our craft stores. In addition, the stores offer a variety of traditional kentucky craft items along with a fine selection of books on shaker, american, and kentucky history. The sale of these items supports the village's on-going educational programs and is an important avenue for deepening the understanding of our guests to the history of site and the shaker community.