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03-21-2008, 07:32 AM
We drove from Dallas in the now brilliant weather with the two ladies, marvelling at the new-laid fields of McMansions (which L now asserts were invented here) laid out across brown fields. There's a style of architecture here I don't understand: the Big Roof. Every new house has a large, a very large, sharply peaked roof, covering a space big enough for an added story but usually without gables or windows, so not. On broken-fronted Big Fancy type houses, it wasn't so noticeable, but on one-story low square houses these huge outsize hats were very peculiar. They seemed higher and containing more space thatn the house below them. They looked like haystacks. What's with that? Why provide that much attic, if that's what it is? Anybody from around there know?
That and the churches: in country that seems so thin in population, who fills these huge churches that stand by the road? There's one every three or four miles. A dozen or fifteen denominations, or none (Town & Country Christian Church). Not even tithing would seem to be able to pay for them.
Then to Tulsa, where we had a walk in an old shingle-style neighborhood of cottages and more elaborate places, ate dinner, and put ourselves to bed in a Motel EIght full of truckers.
Ponca City today, but too tired to recount a remarkably interesting day.
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That and the churches: in country that seems so thin in population, who fills these huge churches that stand by the road? There's one every three or four miles. A dozen or fifteen denominations, or none (Town & Country Christian Church). Not even tithing would seem to be able to pay for them.
Then to Tulsa, where we had a walk in an old shingle-style neighborhood of cottages and more elaborate places, ate dinner, and put ourselves to bed in a Motel EIght full of truckers.
Ponca City today, but too tired to recount a remarkably interesting day.
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