The small church looked like little more than a rectangular box with a steeple perched on top. Had the exterior been rough logs rather than smooth clapboards, the simplistic design could have been a match for something a child would build with Lincoln Logs.
Sizing the church up from the outside I figured the interior probably had room for about six rows of pews which probably put maximum seating capacity at about seventy five.
When my attention drifted from the building itself to the adjoining cemetery, I realized the cemetery grounds were twenty times the footprint of the church.
All of which made me wonder just how long the church had been standing. With space for active parishioners so obviously limited, it must have taken generations and generations to fill the graves marked by weathered headstones as simplistic in style as the church itself.
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