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Julia said, the women, young and old, would tumble out of bed at 4 A. M. of a winter's morning and wallow through the snow drifted between the gambrel-roofed house and the dairy house to reach the "spin" room. 'I have seen a ninety-year-old woman sit in a rocking chair spinning with a tiny six-year-old tot on the platform beside her, also spinning. Eight to ten would spin at a time. The stints were two "runs" a day for wool and one "run" for tow'. But sometimes the weather was too severe, even for a Shakeress. When the wind blew the snow in great gusts between the houses, the women would remain at home and perhaps run tallow dips. Two or three days of concerted effort would give them a year's supply of a hundred dozen.
The women were divided into two classes-one for cooking, the other for chamber work and washing. Two women and a little girl formed the regular kitchen force, the children changing every four weeks. Washing and ironing were done in the morning, the laborers being free the rest of the day. But no one escaped and my ex-Shakeress recalled one old woman who sat down to wash.
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On the shelves in the cheese room were commonly 50 or 60 cheeses being kept two or three years to cure. In the cellar were apples, beets and cider. 'Down in that cellar, by the way', she said, 'was thrust spunky Elmira when in her 9th year. Her screams had no avail until she confessed her fault and promised to be good'. The Shaker fruits were divided among the members, young and old; for example, a barrel of apples for each, to be eaten or given away.
The men at the North Family slept on the upper floor of the Red Shop. The stone dam across the way was begun by Leonard Allen, son of the original William Allen, when he was 70 years old. Within a week and before the dam was completed, he died of pneumonia. Six men operated the shop, sometimes more. In the cellar were stored potatoes for the family.
The business of the family was handled by the Elders. The mem- bers had no vote, but according to Julia Johnson, it was customary to ask the opinion of all, this varied with the Elder in office. "From tales still current in the town", says Scott, "the society occasionally had trouble with these, their agents, who trafficked with the world. For example, Richard Van Deusen at the North Family, not only cut short his hair but insisted on a buggy and plated harness. A compro- mise was finally effected in the matter, by allowing the buggy if it be painted green, like other Shaker vehicles."
Each family had its room for meetings, and each community had its church. On Sunday there were three meetings, Tuesday and Friday evenings there were union meetings and Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday, dance meetings." Scott says, "As I understand it, the chant ran, 'lo-loddle-lo-lo!' while the dance itself alternates, quick step, double shuffle and a sort of polka where the dancers hit their heels to- gether at one of the corners of the square."
Mother Ann Lee never came to Tyringham but Father William Lee and Father James Whittaker did. However, the first Elders at Lebanon, seldom came nearer than Hancock. Julia reported that 15 or 16 girls often went on horseback from Tyringham to Hancock to at- tend Sunday service. On the contrary, often between 200 and 300 World's People would gather at Fernside to witness the local service or "laboring meeting".
The Shakers had an annual confessional day about Christmas time. They would arise at 4 A. M. and gather for prayer. Throughout the day they ate only bread and water, 'though the latter was some- times hot. Confession was made to the Elders.
These people were intense spiritualists. Julia's sister, when seven- teen years old, would lie for hours in a trance, after which she would tell of the mansions and other wonderful things she had seen. That these Shaker children were not unlike those of Salem at the time of the witches, may be judged from the fact that at one period, a half dozen of them affected to be under "influence" of the Indians. One young man, pretending to be thus affected, would eat raw meat out of the cellar. An old Indian, known as Sylvester Spy, had his hut on the
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opposite side of the valley, about half way to the top of the mountain. It is said he was accustomed to frighten the children intentionally. Another, George Konkapot, who was six feet tall, would conceal himself in the lime kiln to scare young people. Indian relics were constantly being plowed up and as the old Shakers narrated Indian tales, gathered around the fire at night, it is no wonder that the chil- dren were inclined to be fearsome. Those in these fireside groups smoked tobacco in long white pipes, both men and women, so said Julia. She, herself, confessed to being afraid of meeting dogs in the woods on her way to school at Fernside, after doing her work in the dairy or the spinning room.
No tea or coffee was allowed the young people. No loud words were allowed at the table, but life was not all cloudy for the Shaker boys and girls. When their spirits flagged during labor, somebody was apt to find the devil lurking about. Instantly, a hue and cry would be raised and for many minutes the whole settlement would remain in an uproar that must have been highly enjoyable to the childish mind. Yet there were too, more world-like recreations. Great wagon-loads of young fry would go off to the berry fields, or a lake. On these occasions, luncheon was always carried, for to sit at the table of World's People was a thing to be avoided. If the World's People visited the Shakers, they were bountifully fed, but no Shaker sat to eat with them.
The Shakers stripped the sides of the Holy Ground of hardwood, sliding the logs to the roadside in chutes, much as they ran their sap in the woods to the sap house down in the hollow of the hill. Once, the North Family was startled by cries for help which came sharply across the valley. Brother Edwin had been hauling wood from the other mountain when an ox fell on its head and broke its neck. At another time it was the brother who suffered, his leg was broken in two places and badly crushed. He lay abed for ninety days. Thus did the Shakers labor."
Julia Johnson recalled, those having lived and died while she was at the North Family Shakers as follows: Leonard, John and Ruth Allen; Eleazer, John and Anna Stanley; Rebecca Johnson; Susanna Dart; Lydia Hall; Asa Hewlett; Nancy Gardner; Maria Hill; Lucretia Markham; Almira Johnson; Charles Showers; Robert and Phoebe Willcox.
"In Julia's young days she had a love affair, of which she spoke without reserve on that memorable walk," wrote John Scott. "She and her Shaker lover did not have the courage to flee the faith, as did so many others; the Elders sent Julia to Hancock for a love cure and while she was there Michael died. As they rested on the summit of Holy Ground, Julia cried, 'My darling has been here!' Returning to Fernside they visited the yard where Michael lay buried."
In 1905, Julia Johnson at 76 years, was unable to make another trip to the home of her youth from Los Angeles. Instead, she wrote a letter filled with added information and enclosed a long poem, for Old Home Week, a nostalgia for her Shaker home and the hills and
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North Family Shaker Settlement
Shaker Settlement Under Dr. Jones
Brother Richard VanDeusen
Sister Christine Bailey on left other sister's names not known
Two old tintypes in the possession of Dr. Glenn Sweet of Woodbury, Connecticut
woods which she so loved. To walk through Fernside woods today one finds the same ferns, flora and trees to which she refers so tenderly.
"The first burial that took place after I entered the home", she recalls, "was that of Thomas Patten, an old Revolutionary soldier, who drew a pension. After he died, his former wife, a helpless paralytic, drew the same. His brother, Asa, was for many years the leading Elder in the Church. They were grand old men and pioneers of the place".
"The Johnsons came later on; Willard and Fanny were distant cousins of mine", she writes, "Willard died in Hancock. Eunice, Harriet and Addison Stover died in Enfield, Wealthy and Hastings in the old home. Desire Holt was our early teacher and her nieces, the Bristol girls, used to visit our school sometimes. I think they married into the Garfield family."
"The Shakers purchased South House of Thomas Garfield before I came there. It was owned by the Church Family and twenty members lived there, among them the Stovers and Desire Holt. Desire had taught school before she joined. She was in ill health and came first for the purpose of being nursed by Christiana Herrick, who had studied medicine with her father, Dr. Henry Herrick, who formerly owned the homestead at the north, where I first entered."
"Father William Clark, original owner of the Church property, had passed on before my day, but a daughter of his, who moved to Hancock in her youth, became a leader in the female line for 50 years. I lived with her several years and she used to relate many interesting episodes of the early times in Tyringham and Hancock. She was still a smart, active woman in the sewing department when she died at 90 years of age. Leonard Allen, son of Joshua Allen, original owner of the North Family property, was the leader in that family."
In closing, she wrote, "It seems I must see all those dear old places once more before I go hence and maybe I will". She never did but Julia Johnson has left a valuable legacy for Tyringham historians.
Just before the Civil War their numbers began to dwindle for in 1858 there was some sort of an upheaval in their community: twenty- three members left at once. Sixteen years after this, the pathetic few who remained asked to be relieved of the burden of so great a property and were transferred to Enfield, Conn. and Hancock, Mass. One sister, who went to Hancock, was asked why the Tyringham Shaker colony was not a success. She replied, "Those hills were steep and rocky, farming was back-breaking, discouraging over there on that hillside. Other communities had better and more profitable land". But already worldly influences had crept in, all Shakerism was on the wane.
Today, ninety-nine of their members lie buried in the brush- covered cemetery below the road at Fernside. Three houses, the com- munity dining room and kitchen and the great ox barn shadow both sides of the highway-all that is left to attest to the courage and labor of a once prosperous people.
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CHAPTER XV-FERNSIDE
The ministry at Mt. Lebanon wanted to establish a Shaker community in Pennsylvania and learned of a wooded estate in Hornes- dale, known as "The Promised Land", owned by Dr. Joseph Jones. The Tyringham Shaker Colony was sadly depleted and the ministry realized they must shortly close it and sell the property. Elder Levi Shaw of Mt. Lebanon, conceived the idea of making some kind of a deal with Dr. Jones and decided to make him a visit. His call resulted in an exchange of properties. However, the undertow of "worldly influence" was too strong for the Shaker doctrine to make any headway in Pennsylvania. The tide had turned and no recruits could be landed on the beach head. Thus-their venture failed.
Dr. Jones, with his family, came to Tyringham and established their home at the former Shaker settlement in 1874. For three or four summers their friends came to visit and enthuse over the beauties of the mountain side, the sunrise over the valley or the grandeur of the views. Then someone suggested, why not take in boarders to enjoy such a lovely spot? The good doctor fell for the idea. He must have a name for the place so he asked a visitor, Albert Hyde, (the Mentho- latum originator) for suggestions. He had previously tried to think of some name that would include the word fern, which he mentioned to Mr. Hyde. There was an abundance of many varieties of ferns growing all about. Mr. Hyde meditated for a moment, then said, "Yes, you have ferns growing all over this mountain side. Why not call it 'Fern- side'?"
Mrs. Jones' brother, George Gustin, an artist, planned and de- signed the interior decorations. All the rooms were papered in a deli- cate gray wallpaper with a green fern design. Kerosene lamps cast flickering shadows over rugs, darker green, overshot by a pale feathery fern. Walnut and haircloth, tall-back chairs and sofas, stands and an organ adorned the living room. Blinds and porches were added to the exterior.
Each Sunday morning, after breakfast, the family and guests gathered for an impressive church service. Often ministers of note, and guests, took part.
Fernside became a popular hostelry. Many notables were regis- tered there during the 1880's. Among them were: Beecher Stowe; Mr. Finley, of the Lorillard Tobacco Co .; Lawyer Jenner of New York; Jeramia Everts Tracy of the Tracy, Choate, & Southmayde law firm; Mrs. Cooper, president of Cooper Union; Henry Harteau, president of Metropolitan Plate Glass Ins. Co .; Miss Corbett, sister of James J. Corbett; Emily Scott, aunt of John Scott; several artists of note and many others. Rabbi Raphael Benjamin came for several summers. He loved to explore the countryside and often walked to Lee and back. H. Calkins, Jr., connected with the Morgan Library of New York, when a guest, had an amateur photographer's studio in the abandoned store in the Paper Mill District. He was popular among the girls and many of the old pictures of the town were taken by him.
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Dr. Jones took an active part in community affairs and was especially interested in a progressive library for the town. Mrs. Bacon, a Bostonian connected with library work, was a guest at Fernside. She, the doctor and Squire Hale held the meeting that started plans for a library building and obtained new books for the collection that then existed. Mr. Calkins helped select children's books.
After fifteen years with paying guests Dr. Jones sold the property to a group of wealthy New York men. Most of the North Family holdings were sold to John Canon, other parcels passed into new owner- ship. Now, summer residents or their employees occupy the whole west side of Tyringham valley, the most scenic in the town and some of Berkshire's best.
The group of New Yorkers who purchased the section that in- cluded the main buildings, the Church Family, organized the Tyring- ham Forest Club. A newspaper item reads, "The Club house and grounds look most attractive. Mr. Peters, the owner, has as his guest, Capt. J. W. Dillinback of the First Artillery". It was through Mr. and Mrs. Peters' influence, with the generosity of L. B. Moore, that the encampment of United States soldiers took place here in the summer of 1895. Mr. Moore gave Battery K the use of Willow Glen, across from Riverside, on Hop Brook, for their encampment. The Battery con- sisted of 10 guns, 65 horses and 75 men. The officers and their wives boarded at the Inn. Capt. Dillinback selected Beartown Mountain for a "long-range" firing ground.
A visitor recalled the scene at Willow Glen after the Battery had had four hours of rapid gait and hard drill on the Sweet meadows below. "Tents-tents everywhere-white against the green. The horses were picketed in line along the outer edge of camp, lazily switching their tails at the flies. Under a sprawling willow tree was the barber shop which consisted of a chair and a canvas bucket. By a fallen tree, the sadler pounded at a boot heel he was mending. On the bank of Hop Brook soldiers lay dozing in the shade; the cook was busy ready- ing chow for dinner. From a tree over him, hung the bugle, ready to make the call to come and get it. It was a peaceful scene and a quiet time for men who had known the noise and hardships of war.
This was a gay summer indeed, for the little town of Tyringham. The townspeople welcomed the soldiers with open arms and honored them in ways only a small New England township knew how, in those "good old days" of the nineties. The many colorful dress parades, the campfire stories, the drills and a glimpse of real military camp life were the soldiers' reciprocative contributions. One red-letter day was the picnic held under the huge maples bordering the stone wall, across from J. W. Sweet's which is now the Perkins home. Fully 1200 people attended that picnic, coming from all the neighboring towns as well as the local citizenry. Scott Bradley Post from Lee, the Myron Nichols Post of Otis acted as escorts to Company K; The Stockbridge band and the Tyringham Drum Corps of eight pieces, constantly furnished music. The tables and platform were decorated with fruit and flowers; attractive young ladies, in white caps and aprons, eagerly waited
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upon the guests-mingled with all were the soldiers in their bright uniforms. Several speakers reminisced of the Civil War, one praised the part taken by Capt. Dillinback and Battery K at Gettysburg. Capt. Weller of Pittsfield, with his wit, kept his listeners in stitches. He recalled how, one time, when the 49th was ordered to retreat, "they took steps 27 inches long and took them often; if the Mississippi River hadn't intervened they would have reached Pittsfield by supper time." Another story was of the Tyringham boy who, they discovered, had one arm an inch and a half longer than the other. They held a conference to learn the cause but decided that probably the boy used one arm more than the other in reaching for chickens.
Many times the roar and rumble of the long range cannon prac- tice on Beartown, echoed across the quiet valley against East Moun- tain, like the War God, Mars, winging through the sky in his chariot. The sound tended to jolt the apathetic natives to a concept of the realities of war.
The climactic end of that lustrous summer came in the final drill of Company K on the Chadwick-Palmer meadows between Tyr- ingham and Lee. It was a clear, warm, early September morning when thousands of people began drifting into the area from all over Berk- shire County, even from New York State and Connecticut. From the hillside above the meadows, the early viewers could distinguish the lines of roads running out through the valleys, by the rising cloud of dust that overhung them. The old-style vehicles from the rural dis- tricts, hundreds of bicycles, straw rides from adjoining towns, the tallyho and fancy carriages from Lenox-all in the procession that wended its way toward the common destination.
The most impressive part of this amalgamated line of travel was the tallyho, as it rolled past the waiting crowd. The twin pairs of Hackneys, knees lifted to chin and back down, heads flaunted sky- ward, with only apologies for tails and with burnished sides and har- nesses, pranced in front of the big rubber-tired-wheels. The Cockney coachman sat up front on his lofty box seat, dressed in silk top-hat, fancy waistcoat and white gloves. The bugler, or footman, elevated at the rear blew merry notes from his silver horn. Between sat the elite of Berkshire society. Beruffled, long-skirted, flimsy gowned women, escorted by men in Norfolk jackets and stiff straw hats, alighted. Immediately a bevy of fancy parasols canopied the vantage place reserved for them and hampers of food and drink emerged from the "boot" in the tallyho, as the party prepared for their lunch. From the hillside above, the "natives" gasped in awe at the symbol of Lenox "Four Hundred" life. What a sight to pass down Memory's Highway!
Equally as impressive but more inspiring was the maneuvering of the Battery. The sharp call of the bugle started the mad gallop of horses, the lash of whips, the rumble of wheels, back and forth across the field with military exactness. Then, at the signal to fire, the huge guns wheeled into line, the caissons rushed up beside them with ammunition. There was a puff of grey smoke and a red flash, followed by a deafening sound which the hillsides continually echoed in re-
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sponse. To those who sat in comfort on the hillside, came thoughts of what the roar of real war would be like. None but a wizard, in that Gay-ninety period, could have foreseen the likes of the future World Wars' equipment and military science.
The evening before the Battery's departure, Willow Glen was ablaze from the light of a huge camp fire in honor of Tyringham. Much regret was expressed by both the members of Battery K and townsmen alike, that the time had come to part. Early Monday morn- ing they were on the move, reaching Great Barrington in time for breakfast served by the women of the Congregational Church. Thanks to Mr. Peters of the Forest Club, Tyringham's gayest summer in history had passed.
Perhaps the quiet summers that followed, discouraged the Club for in three years all their personal effects changed hands at a sheriff's sale. The Real Estate was shortly sold to Attorney Robert S. Rudd who, with his family, had boarded at the Forest Club. Rudd started to stock the farm land and hired a resident manager. Once more Fernside was on its way to prosper-so it seemed. But Mr. Rudd's untimely death in 1903 brought a halt to such prospects and again the property was sold, this time to a man by the name of Dingwall from Mexico City. Rumors flew across the valley, like a flock of wild geese honking the arrival of spring, that the place was in for bigger times yet. How- ever, Dingwall never showed up. To prevent undesirables from acquir- ing such an attractive slice of the town, three of the landed summer residents (Tyrus, Gilder, Hutton) bought the property. Augusto Viale moved in as General Manager.
Meanwhile the Rudd children, grown to maturity, continued to hold an affectionate spot in their hearts for the charm of that hillside. A second generation of the owners had also matured and somewhat complicated the ownership. An irresistible offer was presented to the Rudds which they accepted in 1929, becoming continuous owners to this writing.
CHAPTER XVI-A NEW ERA
As the old order ended, Tyringham entered into a new era in its history. The summer hostelries had brought a semblance of prosperity to this rather isolated village tucked between the hills, which whetted their taste for more and an easier life. It had opened their eyes to city ways and wiles. The 20th century entered with a deluge of summer- landed-proprietors. It came like a cloud of locusts from the cities. "Sell out" became the watchword. The first purchaser was Mrs. M. F. Hazen from New York, who came under the spell of the beauty of the hills and country life, while boarding at Riverside Farm. In 1889 she bought the North Family Shaker property, had several buildings removed, raised the roof and made alterations on the dairy house and named it Nakomis Lodge. She was more interested in Indian lore than Shaker lore.
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As mentioned under Houses and Inhabitants, Editor Richard Watson Gilder was next to buy, then the Rudds. By 1900 the bug to sell was on the wing, flying swift and high. Indian Commissioner, the Hon. Francis E. Leupp, took the Johnson-Taylor farm on Webster Road. Then came Editor H. C. Fordham to Sodom in 1905. Ahead of him was the Egyptologist, Robb de P. Tytus who capped them all. He bought first, three farms at once, in the south end of town, later adding two more. He combined the Garfield, Duncan, Fenn, Beach and Clark farms. His plans were great as was his wealth, hoping to compete with the Lenox estates. He built large barns, stocked cattle and horses, preparatory to operate on a large scale. Lenox society overflowed into Tyringham, their famous hunt took place here. He was the first in town to own an automobile where a chauffeur was em- ployed. As a climax, he built a mansion on the mountain at the head of the valley, with a view stretching to Lenox and beyond, and called it Ashintully, meaning "The Shoulder of the Mountain". The natives were elated at all this, times were booming and Tyringham was on the map! And then-was the old town doomed-Tytus died a young man. Since then, the estate has been divided with more summer-landed- owners. The mansion burned in 1952. The Fenn and Clark farms are owned by John McLennon who occupies the Daniel Clark house the year around.
Mrs. E. B. Andrews from Newport, while staying at Riverside, bought the Cyrus Heath farm in Jerusalem in 1904. About this time Attorney George Tiffany of Brooklyn took possession of the Sweet- Duffy farm on Webster Road. In 1906 John Hutton, connected with the F. Shriver & Co., brass and iron founders of New York, moved into his new house back of Shaker Pond, located on the once Curtin farm land. During the ten years that followed the remaining hillside farm properties were sold to city folk and more recently, several village homes have gone the same way.
There are now five active farms in town; three descendants of early settlers are still farming: Charles Slater on the Slater farm in the south end; the Hale Brothers on their two farms, one at each end of town; Ward McCarthy who owns and operates the former I. B. Tinker farm. Mrs. William Gelsleichter has reclaimed the Clark- Johnson farm in the south part of town. She has successfully built a flock of cross-bred sheep that produce healthy, husky lambs for mar- ket. In Jerusalem Mrs. Sidney Howard operates the old Cyrus Heath farm. She employs a superintendent, Richard Birkett, and her Jersey herd is well known throughout Berkshire County.
Out of approximately eighty dwelling houses in town, half are occupied in summers only. Much over half of the land is owned by summer residents and mostly idle. The rejuvenated forests and en- tanglements of those earliest days steadily advance, like a creeping paralysis, toward the village. Cobble Mountain, once a bare projection against the sky, a historic landmark, is becoming just another wooded mountain. Gradually the mountain streams are turning to dry, rock- filled gullies. Hop Brook, with its three mill ponds, deep enough and
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clean enough for swimming and boating in summer and ice skating in winter, has become a lazy, shallow stream-stagnant in summer. All this echoes the controversial question, is a purely small resort com- munity a healthy situation?
At the beginning of this era a few natives protested, saying that the summer-landed-resident would ruin this town. Town meetings were hot over the subject. One man prophesied, "Sell all your land to city folks and you'll be eating rabbits from your own door-yard". But the majority, in favor, ruled and Tyringham became a summer resort. What would the town have been like today had it not turned to such?
Like most of these rural communities, our small crafts and indus- tries disappeared when machines took the place of tools and mass production moved to the railroad and cities. The development of transportation brought farm goods from the prairies to retail for less than the local farmer could produce. Berkshire County had no ex- panding cities to call for suburbia.
There was a strong prospect in 1889 of a railroad passing through Fernside and West Otis to Connecticut. But the project died in its birthing. Had this succeeded what would the future have been? In- dustry might have come into its own-who knows? Then would the pastoral charm of this valley, of which Gilder sung, remained? Even now the Federal Government has its plans for a super highway along the edge of East Mountain, What will that bring? But it too, is vul- nerable to change. Thus the Hinterlands must yield to the ebbing of the tide and march with the Parade of Time.
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