Monday Murals
Here's my entry for Sami's Monday Mural challenge. It's the interior of Sts Volodyrmyr and Olna in Chicago's Ukrainian Village.
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Sepia Saturday
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas For this week's Sepia Saturday I thought I'd share photos from my visit to Old World Wisconsin. Last week a friend and I visited this historic site in Eagle, Wisconsin to see it's Christmas festivities. Old World Wisconsin is a place where they've gathered and restored buildings from the 19th Century. In December on the weekend's they're open to show visitors how Christmas was celebrated over 100 years ago. In the town's church, which was the first Catholic church in Milwaukee, visitors could sing carols. The performers read a Christmas passage from a Little House on the Prairie book. They also brought kids up from the audience and they read "The Night Before Christmas." Ready for Christmas morning. This room is set up for a cobweb party. Each guest has a color of string and they have to unravel the string to get to their Christmas gift. I wonder what other kinds of parties they had back then. This l
A beautiful mural and ceiling. Interesting to see a Ukranian church in Chicago. Thanks for participating in Monday Murals.
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ReplyDeleteThis mural is really lovely. I can only imagine how people feel the first time they see this in person.