Key Memorial Chapel

Named in memory of Francis Scott Key who lays nearby. I was out for some hobby photography this afternoon. My assignment was shapes and to focus on how they work together. One of the examples in the course was a church with three progressively higher piedmonts and a steeple and directly behind them a peaked mountaintop in the background. We have no towering mountains here, but I think this may be the only building in town where I could get three piedmonts in one shot. The buttresses remind me of our church in Beattyville. Using the iPhone4s standard camera, I was not able to get the exposure and the a good sized cloud passed over the EV dropped from 15 to 14. I exposed on the stone and since there was no hard shadow I was able to make this very nice shot. The inscription reads built 1911 "christened" 1998. I wonder if the funerals before 1998 are legit as well as the commendation to rest. Christening normally refers to baptisms in my tradition, where as dedications refer to objects. I wonder what heretic christened this -- for all have been labeled such by those who consider themselves to be the true church at one time or another
http://www.mountolivetcemeteryinc.com/



ps: I shopped at Target today and while waiting for the photo lab clerk a young lady came up beside me and I could not help but notice writ large on her gray Tee shirt in bold black was "GOOD GRAMMAR IS SEXY". Hmmm It always helps in grammar when we use words according to their standard English usage. Or at the very least an acceptable usage. So in pondering whether some minister might have "christianized" this beautiful old chapel by some act akin to sprinkling holy water and some blessing of word invoking some politically correct god, I decided to consult the dictionary. To "christen is used for a baptism of a human and the "first use naming" of an object--such as when some VIP breaks a bottle of champaign over the bow of a ship. Lord knows what they did in this chapel in 1998 to "christen it". Not at all in good taste I think. I've no doubt when it was rightly dedicated in 1911 all that should have been done was done

http://i.word.com/idictionary/christened

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