A nice Sunday drive to rural…
and oldurban, kitchy, touristy Woodstock, about 20 minutes from home. (BTW, kitchy, touristy is a bravo! It helps the town survive and keeps its old architecture intact.)
Somebody please restore the exterior of the old courthouse - it looks like shit!
And this new-ish library that shows that sometimes today’s architects can get it right. A library not built for the glory of the architect, or of the mayor, or some big donor, but just good, creative, original and not-completely-in-your-face design, for the community.
And then a detour - all of five minutes - through Ridgefield on the way back, with two prominent (well, prominent for Ridgefield) places of worship. First, the only synagogue I’ve yet to discover in the whole region (hooray for a microscopic speck of diversity!), in a converted schoolhouse tucked well away from anywhere…
and this fantiastic 19th Century church (now Baptist), where it seems that the aluminum siding guys could not quite make it to the top of the spire (cuppola, belltower, whatever) and ruin entirely the whole edifice - thank you Jesus!
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