by Kile Smith | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
I hope I am not given to sweeping statements, but traveling has enlightened me to genuine differences between America and Germany. This photo highlights one. America expects drivers to be inattentive, and installs signs everywhere, which are ignored. Germany trusts...
by Kile Smith | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Happy Birthday to my dear Jacqueline Smith! We won’t have time for a birthday dinner tonight, since we have men’s choir rehearsal, so here’s a photo from after our recent dinner in Reinsdorf, Saxony, from the parking lot next to the Hirschgasthof,...
by Kile Smith | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Leaving the Autobahn church in Gelmeroda, we entered Weimar, and after the St. Peter & Paul Kirche (called the Herderkirche after the Sturm & Drang philosopher & theologian Johann Gottfried Herder who was Herr Pastor there for a time) and outside it, the...
by Kile Smith | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Just once more to Gelmeroda. The entire church, with mason; just about all of the nave; looking back to the loft with organ; the Lyonel Feininger prints, to appreciate his style & artistry, and his love for this place; information on the man himself—didn’t...
by Kile Smith | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
The church in Gelmeroda, on the outskirts of Weimar. It’s called the Autobahnkirche; you can see the steeple from No. 4; there are signs on the highway for it. Whether travelers routinely visit it or not, what a lovely idea it is to have it pointed out for you....
by Kile Smith | Aug 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
It’s difficult to take a non-dramatic photo of Thomas Müntzer at St. Katharinen Kirche in Zwickau, as you can see. He was a reformer in the time of Luther but went his own way. He bristled at authority, and in light of a boss or two I’ve had, I have a soft...
