A girl of about three visited Historic Polegreen
Church with her mother recently for a community event -- “Family Fun Day.”
Mom seemed delighted that her child was
there to learn the site’s history (See our note below for a description). But
she may not have expected just how much that was so.
One of the Girl Scouts who were assisting
at the event gave the child a sort-of wand with colorful ribbons billowing from
the end. The girl used it to imagine … and she entered the space of the ancient
church’s recreated interior.
The child’s imagination and her colorful
wand transformed her into a wide-eyed princess walking about her “castle;” for
that is what she told her mother when she asked.
It was a moment as evocative as the history
of the structure itself . Was the child’s imagination influenced by the
spiritual feel of the place?
Perhaps. But we shall never know … until we
try it ourselves.
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Listed on the National Register of Historic Places,
Historic Polegreen Church preserves and interprets the beginnings of religious
liberties in Virginia Colony in the mid 1700s.
It is located
in the metro Richmond, Va. Region in Hanover County. Here’s a link to a Google map: https://goo.gl/maps/osYiR
The mission of the Historic Polegreen
Church Foundation is to
commemorate the struggle for civil and religious freedom in Colonial Virginia
by the Rev. Samuel Davies and the “Hanover Dissenters”. Learn more on our
Facebook page -- @Polegreen, or Web site – www.historicpolegreen.org, or
Twitter @Polegreen1747.
