Church Rock
by Robert Bales
Title
Church Rock
Artist
Robert Bales
Medium
Photograph - Photo
Description
Church Rock is a solitary column of sandstone in southern Utah.
One of the interesting pages of 1930's history tell about Church Rock, and how the gumdrop shaped rock earned its name. Seems Marie Ogden's Home of the Truth, an Utopian community, was responsible. With a small band of followers, Ogden's group moved onto a tract of barren land along Utah's Route 211 in 1933. Members, abiding by a strict code of conduct, were expected to work for the common goals of the settlement. Women tended to the domestic chores and men worked the arid farm acreage. Not far from their farm, the group set upon a grand plan to hollow out the entire center of a sandstone remnant (by hand) to build a church. Today, the only evidence of this ambitious plan is the beginnings of a 16 by 24 foot opening chiseled into the rock. A few miles from Church Rock are the remains of Ogden's ghost town. A few buildings and a small cemetery are all that remain of the Home of the Truth community, found on a ridge called Photograph Gap.
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January 7th, 2012
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Kathy M Krause
OMGosh Robert! Exceptional capture, pov, colors, church doors, windows, textures, steeple and those amazing clouds! God's work for sure! Breathtaking Masterpiece! LF
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