Above and below you see Brooklin’s Beth Eden Chapel being hugged by the shadows of wintering sugar maple trees. Those trees stood staunchly beside the one-room chapel and meeting place for many years.
This plain, late Victorian structure was finished in 1900 as a nondenominational chapel. 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 place to offer prayers of hope; celebrate the joys of christenings and weddings; join in rousing hymn-sings; decide important local issues, and to weep at funerals. (Images taken in Brooklin, Maine, on December 13, 2024.)