Sentences with phrase «clapboard churches»

They stood up for themselves and their neighbors, and they learned the difference between right and wrong from their parents, grandparents, neighbors, and in the tiny clapboard churches that called them to worship every time the doors opened.

Seventy years ago, this town of clapboard churches and modest, pastel - hued homes was the hub of the sugarcane industry, which eventually went bust in 1975.

He is God's clinically depressed man — a former military chaplain, an alcoholic haunted by his son's death in the Iraq War, privately humiliated by the example of Christ and the stern Dutch ministers who once hid runaway slaves under the floorboards of this small clapboard church.

Walker Evans (American, 1903 - 1975) Clapboard Church.

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Toller's church, with its slender steeple and whitewashed clapboards, evokes both a bygone era of American Christianity and a battered civic order, a small - town world of hard work, humility and faith.

Founded in 1964 by Larry Aldrich, the museum is housed in an 18th century converted church and general store, and maintains a white, clapboard appearance (along with a modern glass extension).

Mama, Dad and I make friend chicken with honey, mashed potatoes, chard gratin, parkerhouse rolls, and fruit pies after going to church in a tiny clapboard chapel near my parent's neighborhood.