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2023 Baby Animals at Hancock Shaker Village 4/15-5/7

By Sarah LaDuke
Published April 14, 2023 at 11:27 AM EDT
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2023 Baby Animals at Hancock Shaker Village
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2023 Baby Animals at Hancock Shaker Village
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Hancock Shaker Village will throw open the barn doors for the 2023 Baby Animals Festival tomorrow, April 15. Events run through Mother’s Day weekend.

Visitors to the village can meet the neighborhood’s newest and noisiest denizens, learn about Shaker heritage and history, witness handcraft demonstrations, and take in new exhibitions in recently updated gallery spaces on the grounds.

Nat Silver is the Executive Director of Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.

The exhibitions “Handled with Care: The Function of Form in Shaker Craft” and “Stillness and Light by John Mancia” also open at HSV on 4/15.

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Sarah LaDuke
Sarah has been a public radio producer for over fifteen years. She grew up in Saranac Lake, New York where she worked part-time at Pendragon Theatre all through high school and college. She graduated from UAlbany in 2006 with a BA in English and started at WAMC a few weeks later as a part-time board-op in the control room. Through a series of offered and seized opportunities she is now the Senior Contributing Producer of The Roundtable and Producer of The Book Show. During the main thrust of the Covid-19 pandemic shut-down, Sarah hosted a live Instagram interview program "A Face for Radio Video Series." On it, Sarah spoke with actors, musicians, comedians, and artists about the creative activities they were accomplishing and/or missing.
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