Sunday, May 29, 2011
Cheri May-29-11
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Sharp's Travels
We began our day with church at the First Presbyterian Church at 10:30am. We arrived early hoping to get a chance to look at all the Tiffany Stained Glass windows. We were lucky enough to get a personal tour of all the windows by one of the parishioners.
The church was built in 1884. The Tiffany windows were installed in 1911at a cost of $14,000. Louis Tiffany came to the church and planned the windows for this sanctuary. The special characteristic of these windows is the depth and perspective, especially in the landscape windows. It looks like you could see forever in these windows. The colors are enriched by using layers of glass or by wrinkling or changing the surface texture. Their value cannot be assessed. They are irreplaceable. Each window in its exquisite beauty is a sermon and a prayer, as well as a treasured work of art. They are shielded on the outside with bullet proof glass because there is no way to replace them should any damage occur.
The Ascension window has been removed for repair, so we missed seeing that one. We did see a picture of it and it is beautiful.
Everyone there was very friendly and welcomed us to their church. It was a very nice service.
We had an energy bar for lunch and headed right away over to the Old Prairie town. It is a 6 acre historic pioneer village. It features a botanical garden and a working old time soda fountain. There was an 1854 log cabin, 1870’s prairie mansion, 1891 Victor Schoolhouse, drug store, livery stable, train depot, general store and an 1880 church. We checked it all out and then went back to the soda fountain for chocolate malt. Neither one of us could remember the last time we had a malt.
It was early afternoon, so we made a call over to the Combat Air Museum to check on their hours. We were lucky to have time yet to go through that facility. It houses a collection of over 30 US and foreign aircraft from World War I to the present day. It also had a wide variety of military aviation artifacts, from WWI to the present day. Gay loves to look at old planes.
Since this is Sunday night, it’s pizza night. I found an ad for Via’s Pizzeria, Topeka’s original authentic pizzeria. I thought it was worth a try. Boy was it ever good.
We got back to the 5th wheel at 5:30pm. What a FULL DAY!
Gay has uploaded pictures of the First Presbyterian Church. For pictures click here http://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on the album you want to see.
We didn’t have a strong enough internet signal to upload the other pictures of the day. We will take our computer with us tomorrow and see if we can get them uploaded when we are downtown.
The church was built in 1884. The Tiffany windows were installed in 1911at a cost of $14,000. Louis Tiffany came to the church and planned the windows for this sanctuary. The special characteristic of these windows is the depth and perspective, especially in the landscape windows. It looks like you could see forever in these windows. The colors are enriched by using layers of glass or by wrinkling or changing the surface texture. Their value cannot be assessed. They are irreplaceable. Each window in its exquisite beauty is a sermon and a prayer, as well as a treasured work of art. They are shielded on the outside with bullet proof glass because there is no way to replace them should any damage occur.
The Ascension window has been removed for repair, so we missed seeing that one. We did see a picture of it and it is beautiful.
Everyone there was very friendly and welcomed us to their church. It was a very nice service.
We had an energy bar for lunch and headed right away over to the Old Prairie town. It is a 6 acre historic pioneer village. It features a botanical garden and a working old time soda fountain. There was an 1854 log cabin, 1870’s prairie mansion, 1891 Victor Schoolhouse, drug store, livery stable, train depot, general store and an 1880 church. We checked it all out and then went back to the soda fountain for chocolate malt. Neither one of us could remember the last time we had a malt.
It was early afternoon, so we made a call over to the Combat Air Museum to check on their hours. We were lucky to have time yet to go through that facility. It houses a collection of over 30 US and foreign aircraft from World War I to the present day. It also had a wide variety of military aviation artifacts, from WWI to the present day. Gay loves to look at old planes.
Since this is Sunday night, it’s pizza night. I found an ad for Via’s Pizzeria, Topeka’s original authentic pizzeria. I thought it was worth a try. Boy was it ever good.
We got back to the 5th wheel at 5:30pm. What a FULL DAY!
Gay has uploaded pictures of the First Presbyterian Church. For pictures click here http://picasaweb.google.com/sharpstravels then click on the album you want to see.
We didn’t have a strong enough internet signal to upload the other pictures of the day. We will take our computer with us tomorrow and see if we can get them uploaded when we are downtown.
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