[Magdalen] Unexpected Pleasure.
Grace Cangialosi
gracecan at gmail.com
Wed Mar 4 14:20:51 UTC 2015
Helen Keller, one of my childhood heroes, was a Swedenborgian.
> On Mar 4, 2015, at 3:35 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
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> Re: Swedenborgians in Philadelphia:
>
> I photographed the Bryn Athryn Cathedral some years ago.
> I got a sort of creepy feeling doing so. I checked first with the
> church office, and they wanted to know who I was and what my
> purpose was, and then someone followed me about the entire time
> I was inside.
>
> The story of the building of this church is quite interesting. They
> originally hired the premier collegiate gothic architect in the USA,
> Ralph Adams Cram, but the wealthy Scot who was bankrolling the
> church (Pitcairn) disagreed with Cram at every step until Cram
> finally simply bowed out and they finished the building on their own.
>
>
> David Strang.
>
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