Shaker Town (Taryn's Camera Book 4) (25 page)

I’ve been fascinated with Shaker Town since I first visited it as a child, more than 25 year ago. I return almost every year, sometimes just for the day and sometimes to spend the night. Although I have never seen a ghost there, it is reportedly haunted. The ghosts in my book are fictional but slightly based on the kinds of stories that get passed around at the park.

A friend of mine, Thomas Freese, wrote two books dealing with the ghosts of Pleasant Hill. If you visit my website you can find links to those books in my blog. They’re a lot of fun and Thomas himself is a former Shaker Village employee.

Although the park in question is loosely based on Pleasant Hill outside of Harrodsburg in Central Kentucky, I’ve taken liberties with geography and layout. The schoolhouse, unfortunately, is not there. There is a restaurant much as I described it, the site of an old ice house, and a pond. These things are real. Re-enactors really do sing throughout the day in the meetinghouse and you can take a horse and wagon ride through the park. It’s also open for visitors to spend the night and, yes, there are lots of ghost stories about the rooms.

Although I talked to numerous people about the Shakers’ lives and did years’ worth of research (like Taryn, my MA dissertation was on them) there are some things I am sure I got wrong. Hopefully, that won’t affect the story too much.

Lastly, the Cowgirl Attic IS a real store in Lexington and I urge everyone to visit it. It’s truly unique.

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Taryn's Camera Series

Windwood Farm

Griffith Tavern

Dark Hollow Road

Shaker Town

True Hauntings

Haunted Estill County

More Tales from Haunted Estill County

A Summer of Fear

The Maple House

Four Months of Terror

Three True Tales of Terror

Other Books

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