I was just trying to make out what the German sign said (it was a sheet of metal with cut-out lettering that was hard to read in the growing darkness), when the lights came on and lit the whole stage up. It turns out that this was the site of a chapel that had been built by ...
As I sat in a lawn chair in the yard surveying the crowd, I wondered if the Methodists who used to occupy our church building ever had a picnic here. The scene reminded me of Georges Seurat’s iconic work,A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884(an oil painting in the collection of the...