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Marcus Harrison, president/founder of Harrison Funeral Chapel and Cremation Center in Alton, Illinois, talks with students during the Pathways to Leadership workshop Thursday in the Ahlemeyer Atrium at Lewis and Clark Community College. More than 95 students from area middle and high schools attended the workshop where they met and interviewed community leaders and professionals who have shaped their careers through perseverance, vision and discipline. The event is one of several Black History Month events happening at Lewis and Clark throughout February. For more information on other events visit www.lc.edu/News_Story/BlackHistoryMonth2017/
Photograph by S. Paige Allen, L&C Media Specialist/Photographer
Mmm, I wonder if I can....
Many decisions will need making as this little girl journeys along the pathway of life.
Pathways World School Squash represented India along with other professional clubs at Penang junior Squash Championship
Waitangi Treaty Grounds, Waitangi, New Zealand.
This place is considered the birthplace of New Zealand. If you ever have a chance to visit, do not pass it up. In addition to its historical significance, you won't believe how beautiful the grounds are.
St Andrew, Whissendine, Rutland
The most easterly village in Rutland is called Essendine, the most westerly is called Whissendine. Now, that looks like too much of a coincidence to be a coincidence, don't you think? And yet I'm assured that they are actually named after Anglo-Saxon landowners. Whatever, twenty miles separate them, and as this is a part of Rutland I have not yet explored at all I thought it would be fun to cover the area in between.
It was a fairly leisurely bike ride so far, ten churches in and the most westerly outpost of my journey was now in sight. I was at Teigh, and I had to make a decision. Whissendine was next. It was about three miles round by road, but there was a track across the fields marked on the OS map which was probably not much more than two miles. It was designated a public footpath, but was lined as if to show it was suitable for vehicles. I decided to take the chance.
I found the Teigh end of it, which had a sign saying no motor vehicles except farm vehicles, which looked promising. It led through a farmyard and then wound gently downhill, but very soon the concrete path became a rutted track, churned up by tractor wheels and dried in the sun. I kept a slow, steady path helped by rolling downhill, but the further I got, and the more the track deteriorated, the harder I knew it would be to get back if anything went wrong. The thing was, the track crossed the Leicester to Peterborough railway line, at what on my map was marked as a level crossing, but my map was almost twenty years old. What if the crossing was closed? What would I do then? At the very least I would have to push my bike more than a mile mostly uphill to get back to Teigh. The track became rougher and narrower. The tractor ruts turned off into a field, and now it was only a muddy pathway through the trees, no more than a metre wide. At last, I reached the railway line, thanking God that the level crossing was still in existence, albeit with just a narrow clapgate. There was barely room for my bike, and no vehicle could have got any further. On the other side, praise be, it was a metalled road, and after about half a mile I reached the top road and the village of Whissendine.
Not a large village, but a pleasant, civilised one as if it had once been a place of greater importance. The church, however, is one of Rutland's largest.This great church is very much in the Leicestershire style, a strong, blockish west tower with a wide nave with aisles and clerestories and a grand chancel beyond. It looked fabulous in the sunshine, not to mention my gratitude for being back in civilisation. The interior is lovely, harmonious, wide and rambling. I was put in mind of Barnack in Cambridgeshire. The large nave was full of light, and packed with delights. Bill Bryson gave this as his favourite village church in England, and although it obviously wouldn't be mine I could see why. Bizarrely, the leaning north arcade is supported by a second arcade to the aisle. The simplicity of the church is partly because there are few memorials, and the church is furnished in a seemly High Church manner. One curiosity is the screen to the south aisle chapel, which was saved from the medieval chapel of St John's College, Cambridge, when Sir George Gilbert Scott demolished it in the 1860s. The lower part appears to be a 17th Century addition.
I spoke to the lady clearing up after last week's flower festival (thank you God, for not letting me come here last week) and it was clear how proud she was of the church. And I liked it a lot too, and made it my church of the day so far.
I had come as far west as it was possible to come in Rutland. I was less than a mile from the Leicestershire border. The village windmill across the valley to the west looked attractive, but was time to head home. The road east back to Stamford was a straight one with three more churches to punctuate it. It was a short distance to the first of these, Ashwell.
Madison County Sheriff Captain Marc McLemore talks with students during the Pathways to Leadership workshop Thursday in the Ahlemeyer Atrium at Lewis and Clark Community College. More than 95 students from area middle and high schools attended and networked with community leaders and professionals who have shaped their careers through perseverance, vision and discipline. The event is one of several Black History Month events happening at Lewis and Clark throughout February. For more information on other events visit www.lc.edu/News_Story/BlackHistoryMonth2017/
Photograph by S. Paige Allen, L&C Media Specialist/Photographer
Seen in the Barnes and Noble store at the Lloyd Center mall in Portland, Oregon.
Photo taken for Our Daily Challenge: Pathways
Students on path pathway with bikes bicycles circa 1940s. Do you know who is in this picture? Tell us in the comments!
Courtesy of the Bennington College Archives.
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