In his 96 years Bud Thompson played the pivotal role in the founding of the Canterbury Shaker Village and, with his wife Nancy at his side, The Mount Kearsarge Indian Museum, honoring the art and spiritual oneness of the Native American people of this continent. Along the way offering up their help to also preserve the legacy of New Hampshire's only US President, Franklin Pierce.
He never had time to write the books. There was no author's signing for "Preserving the Shaker Legacy", There was no publisher crowing about the "Ride of the Pierce Brigade"; and there was no shelf at Gibson's Books in Concord, or Main Street Bookends in Warner dedicated to celebrating Native American Heritage in the shadow of the Mountain that the Penacook call Carasarga - today known as Mount Kearsarge.
