[Magdalen] TEC talk
Allan Carr
allanc5 at me.com
Tue Oct 22 05:27:02 UTC 2019
What town is this?
Allan Carr
> On Oct 21, 2019, at 7:42 PM, ME Michaud <michaudme at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I've told this story before. At the time of the Revolutionary War, our
> vicar and our (colonial) governor packed up some of the parish silver,
> jumped on a packet, and sailed to Halifax.
>
> In time, the governor's home became the old age home and we children went
> caroling there every Christmas. We were always invited to thrust our tiny
> fingers into the holes in the wall made as the Patriots fired at the King's
> men.
>
> We were without a vicar until after the war, when Queen's Chapel was
> renamed St. John's. The current building was dedicated twenty years later
> (around 1811).
> -M
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