Our church built in 1835 had a walkway down to Sound Beach Ave. It accidentally burned down by overloading the boiler on a cold winter day in 1895, causing the old boiler to burst.  It was in the middle of our cemetery. The insurance helped pay for the new stone church.

Our next church was built of stone in 1895.  The baby boom after World War II caused us to quickly outgrow the space. Left: the church - note the 3 long windows. They were ochre-colored and were removed (thrown out?) when the Meetinghouse was expanded in 1960. On the right is a mock wedding.

Our Music Minister, Richard Vogt, thought big. He was friends with Benjamin Britten and when he decided to put on Britten's piece, "Noye's Fludde", he found that a popular children's book author and illustrator, Ed Emberley, had done some Noah's Flood drawings. He commissioned Emberley to design our poster for the event. In 2017 the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts celebrated Emberley's talents for a one month exhibit, with our poster redone super large as their choice of his most impressive work! ==> CLICK HERE <== for more photos of that wonderful exhibit. On the left, click to enlarge to see Pat Larrabee standing next to the huge wall painting. The middle photo shows the circular design. The right shows the top detail.

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