[Magdalen] Off to Vermont

[Charles Wohlers]

I'm glad it was a good experience! Lee was surprised and gratified that the 
person she spoke to was so organized and confident that it would happen - 
especially as the last rector, whom we know and like, did not have a good 
experience there.

Meanwhile, we had an unusual service at Christ Church, Montpelier. You may 
recall that on Monday a crane fell onto the roof, making the sanctuary 
unusable for several months. The damage doesn't look severe (we sneaked a 
peek), but it will take a fair amount of work and time to fix.

So services, for the  foreseeable future, will be held in the parish hall 
with plastic stacking chairs and a keyboard, instead of pews and a very nice 
pipe organ. This actually may not be a bad thing, as a parishioner remarked 
to Lee at the Convocation on Saturday. It's a smaller, less formal space, 
which may help them become a bit more "go with the flow" and less formal 
themselves. While they could use a nudge in that direction, I hasten to add 
that they're nowhere near as bad as some of the places Jim has described in 
the past. As one parishioner (this guy -> http://willemlange.com) remarked 
as he entered, "This place oughta get busted more often!" So - I think it 
could be a good thing for them - assuming the crane operator's insurance 
pays for it, of course.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Guthrie
Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 6:28 PM
To: magdalen at herberthouse.org
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] Off to Vermont

First of all, Chad, let me thank you -- and especially Lee help us connect 
for a
ride to Trinity Rutland this morning. There were three Baptism -- and I have 
to
say their Rector -- Liam Muller Is a delight! I remarked to him that he 
wasn't
processed like most clergy in TEC. They failed to remove his electric
personality, his boundless energy, his spirit, his enthusiasm and joyfulness
<g>. he said he was out that day.

Winnie -- who gave us the ride, said that he's like that all the time and in
everything he does. I said that the search committee did an outstanding job 
in
finding him (in South Dakota!), and she responded with a hearty thanks, as 
she
was on the Search Committee. "You did good!"

I hope to return next week. Simply a delightful Church Experience! I'm 
**SO**
glad we were able to go.

From: Charles Wohlers

>There indeed IS a lot to see and do in Vermont. Which is why I often say, 
>"Why go anywhere when you're already there?" And I haven't even been to 
>Rock

There's lots to see, for sure. We did quite a bit of exploring when we came 
for
the Liturgy Festival at St. James Woodstock some 20 years ago. Years before
that, I had a friend at University of Vermont and did some exploring on 
those
trips.

But I think one of the best(and unheralded) attractions is at the Shelburne
Museum -- their 1950s house. It's 1955 down to the letter -- I was 6 years 
old
again there, and started to cry remembering everything as it was in **our**
house back then.

>But - it was Scranton, PA that was being talked about. There is a big 
>Railroad museum there, but I don't know of much else in attractions, 
>although the countryside around there is pretty.

Steamtown with a working ship and roundhouse, train rides and a huge 
archive,
which includes 15,000 glass plate negatives of the DL&W Railroad at the 
start of
the 10th Century. They’ve scanned them all -- and post a half dozen a week 
on
another list that I;m on in hopes of identifying the location (the
photographers' log books are lost to the sands of time. The group of which 
I'm
President -- the New Jersey Midland Railway Historical Society -- donated 
our
archive to them, including 4,000 steam railroad negatives taken between the
World Wars. Those have also been scanned and are available.

Cheers,
Jim