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Michael is an artist, poet and brother in faith who happened to need an author photo for a poem coming out shortly in Mason’s Road, an online literary journal, found here. This image from our visit a couple of months ago fit the bill.
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This south facing church is just opposite the Town Hall (see below) on the main street in town, otherwise known as Route 30. There’s much in each photograph I enjoy, beginning with the fact that the community has gathered in both of these places – for matters spiritual and temporal – since the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Unfortunately I missed this concert by a couple of days, but it was easy to imagine – the sense of community and the power of the songs – in the vibe that lingered.
Mike Aiken comments:
“A town hall, in New England, is exactly that: a hall where the town (the people of the town) can gather to discuss their business, air their concerns, be heard and (possibly) influence the town’s future. The buildings themselves are therefore a statement of faith: that what goes in, comes out transformed by the town mind. And there indeed is a core democratic principle.
Woody Guthrie held this faith, and preached it far and wide, probably in many small towns like Jamaica, Vermont. 21st Century Vermont, however, is not the Dust Bowl of the Thirties, and not even close to the Vermont photographed by the Works Progress Administration in the 30’s. But Woody Guthrie’s songs are remembered, and celebrated, and out of THAT act of keeping faith with the man and his thoughts and words, maybe there is a new world coming along out of what he saw and heard.”
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Looking west about an hour or so after sunset. Needed to use a tripod, and was amazed at how much light a 6 second exposure brought in, as I was shooting in what seemed like total darkness. Interesting also that star trails are evident with such a short exposure. (I had also used a self-timer to minimize any moverment.) A Hunter’s Moon rising behind me lights up the barn a bit.
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Same basic scene as my post of 10/12/12, but a different kind of sky and with most of the foliage gone on the mountain.
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