tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679222788629761697.post1998146786640021007..comments2023-06-07T08:26:03.681+00:00Comments on Hedgerow Ways and Fireside Days: To Catch a VisionJackiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13320930325249337062noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679222788629761697.post-8073028210435530312009-09-02T01:43:08.361+00:002009-09-02T01:43:08.361+00:00See, Jackie, that's what I mean: you're li...See, Jackie, that's what I mean: you're living the life I want to live! And I was living it, too, in Maine for two months. And now I'm back to the insanity of Atlanta... Oh, well.<br /><br />A really lovely post. Consider writing a book.Ellenhttp://www.bluestockingbelle.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679222788629761697.post-6870387550812512572009-09-01T18:31:52.021+00:002009-09-01T18:31:52.021+00:00Hi Jackie, I found this post really profound. Tha...Hi Jackie, I found this post really profound. Thank you from a anglican brought up by an anglican father and chapel mother and whos grandparents were all staunch chapel bar the one anglican!!! Will be thinking of you particularly this week. May you really know Gods peace and blessingBeckyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12237568049089765115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679222788629761697.post-48018094738609614112009-08-27T16:43:45.463+00:002009-08-27T16:43:45.463+00:00I have been following your lovely blog for a few m...I have been following your lovely blog for a few months and really love it. This entry really hit home for me, as I also really value maintaining many of our traditional ways where I live...in rural America! As our country becomes increasingly diverse, many folks of all ethnicities turn away from their traditional crafts, family ways, etc. I really value so many of the ways of my family and want to make sure my child and nieces are exposed to those wonderful, warm ways.Rebeccanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679222788629761697.post-74808300640533068252009-08-26T04:19:04.930+00:002009-08-26T04:19:04.930+00:00Ahh, garden. We picked our pie apples today. Poor ...Ahh, garden. We picked our pie apples today. Poor baby tree is flopped over and worrying me.<br /><br />That sounds like the Baptist denominations of Canada, which makes sense I suppose, since they're descended from the English non-state churches, whereas in my parts, "Anabaptist" designates those of the continent who did the European Persecution Holiday Tour through Russia, Austria and Germany and so forth. But originally they were essentially the same idea. <br /><br />Now they've polarized doctrinally, with "Baptist" tending to mean "legalistic isolationist" and "Anabaptist" to mean "post-modern ecumenical socialist."<br /><br />Don't really want to be either, myself, so I call myself "historic Anabaptist" to refer to the old ways. But maybe I'll start using "chapel" for short. ;~)<br /><br />Off to ogle Dorothy's Victorian pier photos again. Lovely.Cathttp://scitascienda.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679222788629761697.post-21157060661927859362009-08-25T06:45:17.461+00:002009-08-25T06:45:17.461+00:00Don't know - our old one is top and centre of ...Don't know - our old one is top and centre of the town, and our current (village) one is also on the main drag - but I imagine it may have been mainly just that no mainstreet locations were available, what with chapels, by and large, being latecomers to villages which had established their layout in medieval times?<br />Not sure about 'home', there are still major 'issues', I'd say we're more camped out in the garden! LOL that analogy really didn't work!Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13320930325249337062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679222788629761697.post-31674069763278915112009-08-25T06:22:58.830+00:002009-08-25T06:22:58.830+00:00Mmm...poetic musings on village/chapel etc, Jackie...Mmm...poetic musings on village/chapel etc, Jackie. It sounds like you are Home! {g}<br /><br />We explored some pretty villages in the West Country last week (Somerset) and noticed that all the chapels were down a side road of the main street. Ours in Woodstock is very unusually right on the main street! (It used to be a livery stables in the C18th.)<br /><br />I'm sure there's a reason for the sidestreetedness of chapels, but can't think why. Possibly the only land they were allowed to buy?Romanyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01725826881848148814noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679222788629761697.post-85619822073421635792009-08-24T09:00:14.002+00:002009-08-24T09:00:14.002+00:00Yep, you're about there.
These days, 'chu...Yep, you're about there. <br />These days, 'church' is used in a more general sense, you will hear people say they go to a Baptist church or a Methodist church.<br />This is new, though. In my lifetime there was a clear distinction. If you did not attend the Established (state) Church (capital C) (or, paradoxically, the previously Establishe, Roman Catholic Church) then you were 'non-conformist', or, for short, 'chapel'<br />A chapel is a building, usually square and austere, with no frills and furbelows, often Victorian, gien to galleries and school rooms - but no altar rail, and centred uncompromisingly upon the pulpit, the reading and preaching of the Word being the whole and entire purpose.<br />But the word was also used thus: 'Should we give Mrs Mopp a bottle of sherry for her Christmas Box, dahling?' <br />'Goodness me no, Daphne, she's chapel'<br />or:<br />'Shall we see the new family at number 13 in church do you think?'<br />'I doubt it, they're chapel.'<br /><br />There's a complicated element of class, as well - the well to do are always establishment and CofE (apart from the ones with the priestholes and secret ... erm.. chapels, oh how confusing, who stuck with the Church of Rome) whereas worthy middle class types in town and sturdy sons of the soil in villages are more often 'chapel'<br />Too much information, right?!Jackiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13320930325249337062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2679222788629761697.post-60055498853929721132009-08-24T00:59:25.245+00:002009-08-24T00:59:25.245+00:00Explain "chapel" to me please? Like Isaa...Explain "chapel" to me please? Like Isaac Watts as opposed to state-supported denominations? I know very little English church history outside of what made and killed royalty.Cathttp://scitascienda.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com