Other Places

The Palmyra Temple is situated in the woods a stone's throw from the Smith Homestead. The stain glass and view  make it unique.

The pagent is presented on a theatre built into the Hill Cumorah (you can see Rindy and Mac sitting waiting for the show to begin). The Pagent is pleasant.

The Erie Canal is a man-made wonder of technology and labor.

Niagara Falls is just AWESOME
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Monasterio de Piedra Falls , Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain

one of my other favorite waterfall places compares favorably yet very different)

Sense of Place

The term sense of place has been defined and used in many different ways by many different people. To some, it is a characteristic that some geographic places have and some do not, while to others it is a feeling or perception held by people (not by the place itself). It is often used in relation to those characteristics that make a place special or unique, as well as to those that foster a sense of authentic human attachment and belonging.


Professionally we spoke of a sense of place when at John Ryan we designed new store concepts and a particular spot "would want to be something" or look a certain way. The true sense of place hits me in sacred venues. Places where to be candid in my view you would need to be as lifeless as a rock not to fell the Spirit of the place. The most interesting places which have been found by me have been out of doors. Gettysburg is one - walk its fields and the sacrifice paid there is tangible. Carthage is one - where again the sacrifice paid there makes it very real and tangible. Today we visited the Sacred Grove in Palmyra new york. Walk into the woods and you know you are where God has been, You know He has revealed himself to man in that place.


We walked, we whispered, we thought, we listened, we felt. The Sacred Grove defines a sense of place.