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Antioch

Linda Clark

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December 10th, 2013 - 11:24 AM

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Antioch

Antioch
Antioch , an oil painting on cotton canvas and measuring 16 X 20 inches, was completed in the autumn of 2012, with prints on acid free paper released a year later. I believe my painting of Antioch reflects the beauty of the historical building, set as it is among the large old trees in its front yard all covered in the colorful leaves of autumn.
So many of my memories have taken place in this southern rural church. The family church was constructed in 1857 in the eastern portion of Lunenburg County in Virginia, with the first congregation dating back to over 200 years ago.
I am a descendant of some of the early members of this old church, and connected to many others through the many intermarriages of the members over the ages. I attended the church, myself, whenever I visited my grandparents as a child, and then regularly with my parents while I was a teenager when we moved to Lunenburg County. I was married in this quaint white church many years ago.
Antioch was constructed with the typical features of other Southern churches built in the mid-1800s, such as a gallery with a separate entrance for the Negroes, and a division strip through the middle of the sanctuary with separate entrances for the male and female church members.
Later, a recessed pulpit, stained-glassed windows, a vestibule and classrooms were added, but the division strip and the original pews still remain. The churches cemetery is located behind the church where several of my ancestors and their family members are buried.

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