WE *MUST* HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Wow, it's been a long time since I've posted anything. I'm still here, feeling a little less gloomy and disillusioned -- probably because the weather has finally cooled off and it's actually been cold -- it even snowed on Christmas!
Nothing interesting to report other than a brief rat scare (I'm not sure they were rats -- I prefer to think they ( Read more... )
Nothing interesting to report other than a brief rat scare (I'm not sure they were rats -- I prefer to think they ( Read more... )
Another interesting story old by [parishioner Bob] McAllister concerns a small, round, stained-glass window over the altar. In the early years of the church, Dr. Gerstenkorn gave a round, stained-glass window containing four red roses to the church in memory of his mother. The window was over the altar for a number of years.
In 1920, when Prohibition occurred, it was still there. One of the most popular whiskeys of the day was Four Roses. The joke got around town among some busybodies that those whiskey-drinking Episcopalians were advertising whiskey over the altar with the window with the four roses in it. The vestry decided that was not good PR for the church and took that window down and put up the one there now.
“I have tried to find out what happened to that window as I have wanted to put it on display in the Parish Hall,” McAllister said. “I was told earlier that it was put up in the attic and probably is still there. A search was made of the attic, and it could not be found. I was told by one person that the Four Roses window was taken by one of the parishioners and might still be with that person.”
http://www.cleburnetimesreview.com/features/x306489354/John-Watson-City-s-oldest-active-church-reminds-of-bygone-era/
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