October in New England: Conflicting Signs, Competing Realities

This town where I live, this quintessential small New England village is beautiful in the Fall. Sometimes I forget how beautiful ... reality which surrounds me. Clean white wood frame houses, tall slender church steeples rising [more...]

Date: 2008-10-19 18:52:00

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This Land is Your Land

Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen sing Woodie Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” at the Obama Inaugural Celebration Concert on 1/18/09 ... ’t say nothing; That side was made for you and me. In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 03:56:29

The dreary steeples of Fermanagh and Tyrone forever and ever and ever…

RTEs obsession with all things Northern Ireland continues apace. Apparently, we’re coming up to the 40th anniversary of the beginnings of the Civil Rights Movement that ignited all the ‘recent’ troubles. RTE is marking the event with a new website which, we are told, [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 22:31:06

The Phoenix Traveler Travels: New England Pt. 1

From Boston, Mass., to Bucksport, Maine. That was the destination of choice last week when I left Phoenix with my boyfriend for a cooler climate ... that sweeps past so many seaports. The tall white steeples, the Victorian-era homes, the village [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 01:50:03

Singin’ the Original Version

Henry at Crooked Timber posts a reader’s observation that Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen closed out the event at the Lincoln Memorial by singing ... of the steeple Near the relief office – I see my people And some are grumblin’ and some are wonderin’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 16:27:55

Does Anyone Really Enjoy Pete Seeger?

So the Los Angeles Times headlined its big story about yesterday pre-inaugural concert at the Lincoln Memorial with this misleading title: " ... , in the shadow of the steeple Near the relief office, I see my people And some were stumbling [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 14:40:00

Got a tip for a post?: Email us | Anonymous form Get PEEK in your mailbox! ... - In the shadow of the steeple Near the relief office - I see my people And some are grumblin [more...]

Date: 2009-01-21 00:30:22

Collect for a Noonday Service (Part 3)

Kristin gives her a jaunty salute as she approaches. “Hey! Reverend Clare! ... , Chief. Spring any speed traps lately?” --and a healthy disregard for authority. Russ steeples [more...]

Date: 2008-06-04 14:28:33

le Carotte visits Montreal

Recently, le Carotte pointed out that I neglected to document a quick weekend trip he took to Montreal last month ... to the airport I counted no less than 20 elaborate steeples rising above the building tops, and we saw dozens [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 01:37:15

In Massachusetts, a 'long journey' changes judgment on gay marriage

WEBSTER, Mass. - If five years ago somebody had told Paul Kujawski, a Polish kid who grew up in this central Massachusetts mill town, ... up attending Mass under the steeples on the hillside, Kujawski knew exactly what to think: Marriage [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 06:43:27

steeples along the texas highway

DSCN2232 got some good steeple pictures on a road trip today DSCN2230 [more...]

Date: 2008-06-19 02:53:11

Weekly Haul: The Week Dan DiDio and Joe Quesada Conspired To Make Sure I Didn't Have Any Money Left Over For Food

Avengers: The Initiative #16 (Marvel Comics) If the war between the Skrull Empire and Earth’s superheroes has seemed a little claustrophobic in the ... villains, masked people, gargoyles, graves, caves and church steeples. That is, it plays to Jones’ [more...]

Date: 2008-08-27 23:08:00

Ring Festival L.A. - Wrong Festival L.A.

Over the centuries people have come to Southern California from all over the world ... heritages mixing: two architecturally antagonistic church steeples. They're one block apart and were [more...]

Date: 2008-11-22 02:12:00

This Is Ireland

Every family of Irish descent needs an introduction of Ireland for children. Miroslav Sasek’s This Is Ireland is a classic ... .  There’s Dublin with its modern city crowds, tall steeples, and Trinity College; there’ [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:26:20

Book Review: London - The Thames

The cross-town transect is often the first approach of anyone wishing to grasp a city in its entirety ... more effectively than the towers of the City; Wren steeples are lost behind expensive but dull [more...]

Date: 2008-12-15 16:22:13

California Wildfires a Sign God Displeased with Obama Win?

Applying the same rules the left did with Bush and natural disasters! The church steeple of the Sam Sung Presbyterian Church in Carbon Canyon near Brea, California stands tall as a wild fire bears down a hillside towards the church November 15, 2008. Remember [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 21:08:26

Greece Day Four: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Mamma Mia!

Sunrise over the cliffs of Santorini. (Ummm, yeah. This was the view as I ate breakfast.) SHUT UP! I KNOW! The view of the ship from the port of Fira. A Greek Orthodox church facing the caldera. A tourista taking it all in. Dueling steeples over the bay. Realizing at this point: "I've [more...]

Date: 2008-09-16 16:42:25

B-Town Undercover: Coffeeless In B-Town

by Shawn Underwood The month of May is over and as usual, we remain sunless in Seattle ... at the inn” or something like that that they sometimes say in those places with the “steeples” (now it’ [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 12:43:38

Sunday Lyrics - Stained Glass Masquerade

My all time favorite contemporary Christian group is Casting Crowns ... * Are we happy plastic people Under shiny plastic steeples With walls around our weakness And smiles [more...]

Date: 2008-08-10 09:00:06

Twin peaks

I mentioned that I missed seeing ancient buildings in an earlier post, ... County in that it has two steeples. I snapped it this afternoon as we drove past. The sun [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 23:17:00

Shooting The Int’l Gold Cup ‘Steeple Chase’ Horse Race in Virginia on Saturday

My buddy Jeff Revell, who lives in Northern Virginia, invited me to come up for the day to shoot the International Gold Cup Horse Race, held each year in Great Meadow near The Plains, Virginia (some of my shots from the event are shown here—click on them for larger views) [more...]

Date: 2008-10-20 07:22:08

Seeger's version

Michael Kazin points out that Pete Seeger's and Bruce Springsteen's performance of Woody Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land," ... ! Now that side was made for you and me! Chorus In the squares of the city – In the shadow of the steeple [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 05:48:00

Guide to Copper Weathering

Although generally familiar with the stages of weathered copper, we didn’t actually know the data behind the process ... it - in school copper usually meant old Danish church steeples.  Having a new found curiosity [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 06:59:59

A Very British Christmas

A Very British Christmas Posted by Lew Rockwell at 12:32 PM From John Betjeman's Collected Poems The bells of waiting Advent ring, ... all the steeple-shaking bells Can with this single Truth compare – That God was Man in Palestine [more...]

Date: 2008-12-25 18:32:11

Interview with Gerry Cofield: Second Place Winner, Spring 2008 Flash Fiction Contest!

Gerry L. Cofield’s love of stories and books started on the knee of her Paw-paw, the ultimate story-teller, when she could barely talk ... to Woodland, Alabama to operate the family business of manufacturing church steeples (yes, really [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 12:00:00

“By the relief office I saw my people”

The more I think about it, the happier I am about Pete Seeger, accompanied by his grandson Tao and Bruce Springsteen, ... the whole thing. I believe it.) “In the squares of the city, by the shadow of the steeple [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 23:14:06

Making Light: Nobody living can ever stop me

(Video removed by YouTube because HBO contacted them and claimed it was “infringing.” Stay classy, HBO.) ... , as noted in the comments: In the squares of the city In the shadow of the steeple At the relief [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 02:40:18

Something to Crow About

By John Grant Listen to this devotional read aloud online: http://thelife ... towns and villages. Why was there a rooster rather than a cross adorning the steeples? Getting [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 09:00:46

We Are One - Inaugural Concert!

Pete & The Boss! This is so cool!Look at their faces yesterday! ... nothing;That side was made for you and me.In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people,By the relief [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 21:07:00

Problem With Perspective

Today’s question comes from Judy and she asks: “I have a lot of trouble with the perspective on the steeples of New England churches. Does anyone have any quick and simple fixes for this? “ [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 13:28:01

Competing Churches Intrigue Me

This is the sort of thing I would normally put on the little backwater of my travel blog, ... with the steeples on the right, and the larger Bernardine Church sits behind it. You can see from the photo [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 16:27:23

Monday Miscellanea

This Week In London’s History Monday – 1st September 1856: Richard Westmacott, ... amidst the forestry Of masts; a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 07:52:38

My Name Is Earl Season 4 Episode 15

My Name Is Earl Season 4 Episode 15 Darnell Outed airs Thursday January 15 at 8/7c on NBC. “MY NAME IS EARL” “DARNELL OUTED” 01/15/2009 ( ... Steeples) receives a startling phone call. Nadine Velazquez also stars. Originally posted [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 08:09:37

Mormon Invasion

The Mormons' plans at world domination continue: Mormon church president Thomas S ... : Architecturally, temples are towering white buildings with tall steeples. Many are topped with a trumpet [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 03:57:38

MY NAME IS EARL “Sweet Johnny” (Season 4 Episode 4)

Check out some pictures from MY NAME IS EARL’s Season 4 Episode 4, “Sweet Johnny” Thursday, October 9 on NBC 8-8:30 p.m. ET ... , but Darnell (Eddie Steeples) does not approve of owning the firearm. Ethan Suplee and Nadine Velazquez [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 05:40:10

After Ike: "Right now, all we have is each other"

Antoinette Pacini prays during Sunday mass at the Galvez Hotel, which was headed by a priest from Sacred Heart Cathedral Galveston ... standing.The steeples still beckon in the Galveston skyline.But open the doors [more...]

Date: 2008-09-23 08:08:00

Turkish 'Delights' Presented as Frightful

On the weekend I read a travel item in the Ottawa Citizen about Istanbul ... even the booming of bells from church steeples, which I suspect you would not have described [more...]

Date: 2008-11-03 02:18:00

MY NAME IS EARL - “The Magic Hour” (S4E01)

Check out some pictures from MY NAME IS EARL’s fourth season premiere episode, ... Eddie Steeples as Darnell (Photos: Courtesy of NBC) Post from: Daemon's TV MY NAME IS EARL - “ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 06:08:10

January 16 - American Townland by Fergus O’Farrell

American townland Snow in Iceland Russian farmland And the sword of Islam The state of new Israel Remembers Belsen Now there’s sand for ... were towering steeples Now there’s a soaring eagle A crescent moon and a rising sun Our prayers [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 02:23:23

An Escape Into the Hills

Perched among mountains and hills in the remote outskirts of Jerusalem, ... village. Interspersed throughout are winding streets and centuries-old homes, towering church steeples [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 22:09:10

This Land is Your Land

Pete Seeger led the crowd at yesterday’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial in the singing of “This Land is Your Land ... ! Now that side was made for you and me!ChorusIn the squares of the city - In the shadow of the steeple [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 19:56:21

Reformation Sunday

Today is Reformation Sunday.*Yes......go ahead......any non-Lutheran readers may yawn and sigh "ho-hum".......that's OK ... photos of water towers, steeples, old barns, and fall foliage. Its an illness, for sure.)* [more...]

Date: 2008-10-26 10:00:00

High Risk Jobs

When discussing Life in the category of jobs regarded as’ high risk ‘can vary from broker ... at high altitude and high widths flights. Steeple Jacks are considered ‘high risk’ as well [more...]

Date: 2008-12-20 00:42:41

REVIEW: Walk by Faith by Rosanne Bittner

Dear Ms. Bittner, Until I saw this book listed at the eharlequin site, I had no idea you’d written any Steeple Hill Love Inspired historicals. Since “Texas Embrace” is one of my favorite old timey [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 19:50:42

rapper, branco, de kansas city

Mac Lethal - Sunstorm I'm from the methlab city of broken dreams, and cracked out dopamines, where everybody'y looking for an ocean scene, ... , the bible belt, friendly smiles, and Christian steeples, and names like Bobby Sue Williams and Belinda [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 15:00:00

This land belongs to you and me, but the Inaugural concert belongs to HBO

A video of folk legend Pete Seeger and Bruce Springsteen singing Woody Guthrie’s socialist-tinged “The Land is Your Land, ... nothing, That side was made for you and me. In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-20 02:51:50

The Zero Down Cab Driver

Steeples Riding in cabs is always an interesting experience. Most of the time it is terrifying, I try not to look out the window. Yesterday I was in a cab in Pennsylvania with a chatty cab [more...]

Date: 2008-06-05 11:37:59

‘We Are One’ Inaugural Concert

President-elect Obama speaks at Lincoln Memorial (Dennis Brack/Getty) ... nothing, That side was made for you and me. In the shadow of the steeple I saw my people [more...]

Date: 2009-01-19 09:00:30

earth crammed with heaven..

“Conrad Ostwalt in Secular Steeples: Popular Culture and the Religious Imagination (2003) offers a fascinating discussion that challenges the sacred/secular dicthotomy and the so-called “secularized [more...]

Date: 2008-06-06 18:22:02

America- the land of the zip-lock bag. Chapter 7

7.The Healing Service It just so as happens that on Saturday mornings Bethel has a healing services ... it. I had mentally put in my head that generally speaking American churches do not have steeples [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 09:32:50

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