I See Ghost Towns and Road Signs, But Where's the Bible?

Do you ever think longingly back to the early 1960s? Maybe not, but I have linked a youtube video of I've Got a Secret episode from December, 1961. Why? Well, this episode is about the last resident of Ironton, CO. As a part of the video, they show a couple of photos from the town - one form 1890 and the other from 1960. For those of you that know the town, where was the second photo taken and do we know the house that Mr. Larson lived in? There are some cool photos of the town in a little better repair at this link.

Here is another of the houses there in Ironton.

Back behind the town is this suspension bridge. Can you see it? It is about 1/3 of the way down the photo. It carried a slurry pipe and is mentioned in this article. It was once the longest suspension bridge in Colorado.

Here is the town in 1908.

And another shot from a slightly higher elevation.

I read an interesting article by Kenneth A. Briggs investigating the Bible's disappearance from public life and where he could find it. It seems his biggest surprise was that it seems to even be absent from some churches. He says "In the mega-type churches – the churches that were really heavily loaded with the visual and the audio and the rest of the electronic stuff, the music – I was really stunned by what I saw as that alternative verson of Christianity being delivered through those means. I didn’t consider it biblical in the fullest sense. I thought it was highly stylized – the versions of Jesus, who Jesus was, being filtered through these videos – and, in some way, I found almost shocking in how they seemed to vary from the much fuller picture that exists in the New Testament. So I was surprised by that." Each Sunday morning, I watch Joel Osteen for at least a few minutes. I always catch his opening joke, and then often stay with him into his sermon. He does quote some Scripture occasionally, but he always returns to the prosperity that will be ours if we just stick with it. The article also mentions the way there is a 'substitute' Bible now with video and audio and other information delivery methods. It's a different world than the one in which I was raised.

"Look at that white, fancy, big house." Does that sentence sound somehow wrong? That is because an proper order for adjectives to occur, at least in native English speakers. The order of adjectives, according to the author of a 2013 book 'The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase', has to be: opinion-size-age-shape-colour-origin-material-purpose." I don't ever remember being explicitly taught that, but I certainly recognize it if someone violates that order.

Newspaper blackout time:

This is a great interpretation of a road sign:

And this is the end of the post for today. If you stayed with it this long, thanks for your perseverance. Have a great weekend and let's come back refreshed in a few days.