New Decade, New Chapter, New Hampshire
Thursday, October 17, 2024
Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Chicago Tour
A visit to Chicago is not complete without a boat tour and description of the architecture, or so we were told by my nephew and his groom when we got the wedding invitation. The wedding was on a Friday evening and the boat tour was on Saturday afternoon, the 2:30 sailing.
We sailed with Wendella Boat Rides based at the foot of the bridge by the Wrigley Building.
Monday, October 14, 2024
All Saints Church
The first documented Episcopal services held in the Hamlet of Hoosick were conducted during the 1850’s by the Rev. G.B. Manser, D.D., Rector of St. Peter’s Church in Bennington, Vermont. In 1864 George Mortimor Tibbits, Troy businessman and Hoosick farmer, began construction of what would become the nave of All Saints Church. The structure was built with native stone quarried locally and trimmed with sandstone brought from Connecticut by sloop up the Hudson River and carted by wagon to Hoosick.
A temporary wooden spire was attached to the original building but this was replaced in 1872 when the present stone tower and the chancel were constructed.
When the tower was completed the Tibbits family presented the church with a set of bells, cast in Florence, which had won Grand Prize for a peal of bells at the 1867 Paris Exposition. The little bell at the top of the tower is an ancient sacring bell (ca. 1578) and was brought here from Munich, Germany. It is said to be one of the oldest church bells in the United States.