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churches

• 12.01.07
  Disconnecting a church building from the terrain
  churches, iowa (0)

  I was pleasantly surprised to see this youtube video when I was taking a look at the In The Agora blog. I recognized right away what it was. It's a church where some of my wife's relatives were members. The only time I was there was in September 2005, when we went to Manning, Iowa for a family reunion. We knew at the time that the congregation was going to cease to exist as a separate entity, that the building was going to be moved to town, and that a video production was planned. Some good photos of the church and of ...
  
  
• 11.22.07
  View Quake
  Schools, churches (1)

  Interesting term: View Quake. I got it here. It's what happens when you read a book that shakes up your mind, earthquake style, leaving an altered landscape. I had an event like that about 11 years ago, when I read Roy Meyers book, "History of the Santee Sioux : United States Indian Policy on Trial." There are other books that could have done it, too, but that happens to be the one I read after my 1996 bike tour when I got drawn into the story of the Black Hawk war and all the issues around ...
  
  
• 10.21.07
  Nappanee
  Amish country, Elkhart County IN, churches (1)

  Nappanee, Indiana was heavily damaged by a tornado Thursday night. The Indianapolis Star has photos. I ought to have photos of my own of the town (not the tornado), seeing as how two different bicycle tours took me through the town last year, and I've been through it a few times this year, too, at least once by bicycle. But I have a bad habit of forgetting to take photos while I try to get through these midwest towns. Nappanee is a very Amish town, but the traffic on US-6 is not comfortable ...
  
  
• 03.30.06
  Alabama trip, Day 5, Thursday March 30, Part 2
  Signs, Tennessee, Tuckabatchee tour - 2006, churches (1)

  Imported on 24-Sep-2006 from a LiveJournal of 1-May-2006 When I got to Buffalo, I found Myra had not yet left. So we had lunch together. There was Nextel service at Buffalo, so I called to see how things were going back at work. It was the first time since I left on vacation. (Nice!) It was already into the afternoon by the time I started south again. The road south of I-40 follows the Buffalo River valley to Lobelville and Lindon, and then follows a ridge for several miles before dipping down into the valley at Flatwood, and then out again. It was ...