No more school...
 

...even beyond a hippie home.
Last summer I made a trip to the border to pick up a nice VH. I tend to take a lot of back roads on the way home from there (3 hours by good roads). Kay was along and tends to get nervous when pavement becomes gravel becomes a trail becomes an old pasture. I always figure if I got there and didn't get stuck, I can always retrace the route and find pavement again. Some of the land I know well and know that at the end of a horrible primitive trail (by city girl standards) there will be a decent road again.
Here's one trail, a pasture, a very photogenic abandoned and decomposing GMC school bus, and a church built the year before the 1929 stock market crash that ushered in the "Dirty Thirties". None of this would have been seen from pavement. :) Also, the VH two months later.
Cheers,
Jack

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Jack, I always enjoy your great photo's. Thank's So if I get this right the church is in the middle of nowhere.....right?

that sure is some beautiful country....i believe the school bus is about a 1949 gmc.....if it was not so far id like to attend church at that old place....it has some thing i like about it but i cant explain it....charlie

Dave: Actually, the church is within a couple degrees of the centre of the universe. This one is at the hamlet of Courval, Saskatchewan. It was a small French settlement about 40 km northeast of Gravelbourg. The hamlets of Courval (parish of St-Joseph) and Coderre (parish of St-Charles) originated respectively in 1908 and 1910. The settlers came from the Eastern Townships in Quebec as well as from North Dakota; today their descendants number about 400–500. The population of the hamlet of Courval today is approx "a few". When Kay, the dogs and I arrived and took some pictures, the population had a significant percentage increase for a while. By some estimates, that would be close to the middle of nowhere.


Now this church gets closer to the middle of nowhere. A few dedicated souls are doing restorations. No inside plumbing yet but not really needed with the current amenities.

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This church is at the true epicentre of nowhere. The faithful flock is but a few pigeons in the belfry.

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those old churches just keep getting better and better....bet a few roosters and hens stay in the church yard.....if only those old builings could talk.... charlie

Charlie: You can attend services here. Just ten miles from North Dakota and 1/2 mile from roosters and more roosters. Hell's inferno hath no effect here, that's for sure. :)


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Churchyard biffy - more holey than righteous
Nothing says "emergency" like a fancy outhouse still available for the congregation in the dead of winter.
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Cheers,
Jack

Good to see that this is one of them "Premium" outhouses complete with toilet seat lid and a paper towel holder! I wonder what they stock it with for reading material?...:)

No more school for "Further" either. I think she's still located just outside Pleasant Hill, Oregon.

Paper towel holder? I thought it was a mail box.

Could be huh!.... Now those folk's spend alot of time in the john....:rotf: