My Aisling: Fro Sale: Harvard (?) Shaker Blanket Box

Sunday, October 25, 2009

Fro Sale: Harvard (?) Shaker Blanket Box

I purchased this blanket box at the Willis Henry Shaker Auction in 1999 or 2000. Unearthing the paperwork now ... I recall it was from a smaller community but don't recall off the top of head. It is documented in the Willis Henry catalogue if you have that.

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Wise words: Abraham Lincoln once asked an audience how many legs a dog has if you count the tail as a leg. When they answered "five," Lincoln told them that the answer was four. The fact that you called the tail a leg did not make it a leg.

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Aisling: (Irish: aislinn; pronounced ASH-ling): A vision poem.

In an aisling, the island of Ireland appears to the poet in a vision in the form of a woman, sometimes young and beautiful, sometimes old and haggard. This female figure is generally referred to in the poems as An Spéirbhean (the sky-woman).
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