Here you see Brooklin’s Beth Eden Chapel being hugged by maple tree shadows yesterday morning. This plain, one-room nondenominational church and meeting place was completed in 1900.
It’s not used much now, but it was once the emotional center of a small rural community of hard-working people. They came to this special place to offer prayers; celebrate christenings and weddings; join in rousing hymn-sings; decide important issues, and to weep at funerals. The Chapel is even plainer on the inside:
Leighton Archive Image
(Primary image taken in Brooklin, Maine, on February 9, 2022.)