Image of the Month for April 2006

The Second Universalist Society of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, was organized Jan. 23, 1868. Its Church of the Messiah was dedicated in 1873.

For more information, see: Edith Fox MacDonald, Rebellion in the Mountains: The Story of Universalism and Unitarianism in Vermont. Concord, N.H.: New Hampshire Vermont District of the Unitarian Universalist Association, 1976, p. 63-64. [Photo dated Oct. 1896 and showing the sanctuary decorated for the Harvest Service (credit: H.H. Hoyt, minister, 1895-1898): bMS 902/35 (18)]

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These images, often buried deep in our collections, are selected by Clifford Wunderlich; please address corrections to him.