Well, not to bombard you, but I like to keep up..
Last week when my visiting nurse was here, she mentioned she
was probably going to buy a lot and build, and it was on Colton Point Road, in
the legendary “7th”. We talked
a little bit about it and she said it “has an old church on it”, which of
course caused MFO’s antennae to raise. We
kind of located it with the help of Google, and MFO opined that it might have
been associated with All Saints Episcopal Church in Oakley.
We consulted a local history expert and he checked into it
and found that the land was indeed acquired by the vestry of the All Saints
(Episcopal) Church in Oakley, which is quite a few miles up the road. Sure enough, after borrowing from that
excellent resource: “I’m Goin’ Down County” by Kirk Ranzetta, we found a few
more facts. There it was reported that
due to the influx of summer visitors and local watermen, that the church found
it needed to establish a mission to minister to the residents of Colton Point, who
lacked transportation to get to the main Church in Oakley. Members of the vestry purchased the land in
1900 from a Mr. Robert Yates, and erected a Gothic Style Church adorned with a
projecting tower. Called St. Agnes
Chapel of Ease, it was used as the main place of worship when the original Church
in Oakley built in 1846 underwent repairs, and the congregation had to move the
Chapel in 1906. Eventually maintaining two churches proved too costly, and the
parish sold the property in 1962 to a Mr. John Choporis, a surname known to
some county residents.. You never know what a conversation with your
home health nurse will lead to..
So this morning we decided to kill time until “the Game” by
taking a little road trip to check out the place. It’s always fun to drive around the county,
you never know what you will run across.
We started out on a rainy morning and soon discovered a local hawk embarrassing
him/herself by eating worms from a lawn
Continued on through Leonardtown, down 234
and turned circuitous left at the new traffic circle in Clements, and headed
into the 7th on Rte. 242.
Always something interesting and picture worthy to see along the way
Turned left on Oakley Road and saw the All Saints church,
oddly enough once again undergoing repairs
Despite the renovations it has a historical charm, kind of
nice on the gray day.
Then continued on down through Avenue passing Holy Angels (Catholic) Church (where services were just concluding)
And eventually found the St. Agnes Chapel of Ease, or what remains.
Still standing after over a hundred years and change. Love our county.
On the way home, as we were going back through Leonardtown,
I spied an odd cargo in the back of a pickup
Hey!! what's that???!! but there were those giveaway orange buckets
Only in SOMD do you stand to see (manual) Oyster Tongs going
along the road. Love our County,
So was a nice way to pass the time before the “game”..
And I was going to stop here, but damn it, I have to get in
a small rant.
Rant begins NOW!
A few years ago we sort of
stumbled on some pregame programming called the Puppy Bowl. Cute little pups doing cute little puppy
things, chasing, nipping, yapping, and so forth. Who doesn’t love a puppy?
So we decided to tune in to Animal
Planet this year and watch again. What a
disgusting display of gratuitous crap. They
actually had a “Sports Desk” like the networks have with three talking heads,
who feigned to be serious and talked about the little dogs like they were
people. “Wags is a tenacious player; we
look for him to try to end around…”
blah, blah blah. Didn’t even
crack a smile, just acted dead serious.
They introduced the Lineups from Team Ruff and Team Fluff with more
silly descriptions. “a fast competitor,
looking to score touchdowns”. Even more
disgusting was The National Anthem, with bunny cheerleaders, dogs looking
doped, and even a parrot pecking at a smart phone “Putting out Tweets”.
Oh, this year there were “Stands”
cardboard cut outs, with silhouette flat profiles of “Fans” who were wiggled up
and down (The fans are going nuts!) As
for the action “on the field” the pooches ran around aimlessly nipping,
chasing, and every once in a while picked up a toy and happened to run to the
end of the “field”, where the announcer shouted “touchdown”. We were nauseated by this time and turned it
off. Embarrassing treatment of the
animals and idiotic behavior by the humans.
The only good thing that might be gleaned is that most of the canines
were rescue..
Never again.
Well, almost time for the ultimate sporting event of the
year. And I ain’t going to
DFD
Go...... whoever!
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