Shrimp Boats A'Comin.....

We had the opportunity to take a shrimp boat out of Brunswick, with a marine biologist as our guest lecturer, to check out their operations and see what else besides shrimp came up in the nets.  Very interesting morning aboard The Lady Jane.

 The boat....

 Lady Jane - wife of the captain

 

and the cafeteria line formed.

I did see a couple of our tour mates talking to the captain before the ship left....just sayin'

 We started down the channel towards the Sidney Lanier Bridge

and the show began.....

 Quickly the nets were readied to drop and dredge the channel.  The yellow contraption works to keep the net open while it is being pulled along the bottom of the channel.

The cafeteria opened and the line surged forth as the net was raised.  We were as eager to see what there was in the net as the gulls were.....

After dropping the net a couple more times it was time to head back to the dock and a quick tour of Christ Church.

Of course our buddies came along to see if we had any leftovers.

Christ Church 
Federica
St. Simons Island, Georgia

Built in 1884 and featured in the Eugenia Price St. Simons trilogy.  It is in the adjoining cemetery that Ms. Price is buried along side her long time companion Joyce Blackburn.

In 1862 the church was destroyed and legend is the altar was used as a butcher block by the Union army that was stationed at near by Fort Frederica.  Eugenia Price mentions this in her book and our tour guide said he had seen the axe and knife marks for himself when as a young man he moved the altar cloth in order to stand on the altar to put flowers on a ledge above.  True?  Maybe, some of the altar was salvaged after the destruction along with some pews and other  pieces and bits.  In 1894 they rebuilt the church incorporating those items they had salvaged.  The new church was built by ship builders in the shape of an inverted hull of a ship - denoting the ship of faith.

The altar, with the altar cloth in place hiding any marks left.
Adorning the altar, pulpit, and lectern are needlepoint hangings created by Mrs. William Chisholm at 76 through 93 years of age. A member of Christ Church along with her husband, she designed these to include the liturgical colors for all the seasons of the church year except Lent, when they are removed.




Beautiful stained glass windows were throughout the church.  Here is a sampling.

The window above was designed and built in Germany in 1899 and is dedicated to the Rev. Anson Green Phelps Dodge, Jr., who rebuilt Christ Church.  In addition to Christ Church Rev. Dodge also funded and built four other churches on the island.  The bust in front of the window is a likeness of Rev. Green.

One side note from our tour guide, who is a parishoner, the current pastor of the church is a dead ringer for  Reverend Green.

and with that we will head down the path to see what tomorrow brings.