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02/12/2004: "How Firm a Foundation"

I had heard a few mentions of the Pleasant Plains Methodist Episcopal Church over the years; I thought it had once been on a wooded lot in the Great Swamp near Meyersville, but when I'd gone by I saw no signs that a building had ever been there. Supposedly the church building had burned down in 1931. This week I'd come across a new source of information on it, and found that I was thinking of the wrong intersection. I drove past the right spot the other day ansd saw nothing but a whole lot of ice and trees. Today I went over and got out of the car to look around, and sure enough, nestled in the corner of a triangle described by the two roads and the swollen, frozen brook, a foundation. Fieldstone, laid out in a rectangle, not all visible but enough. The building had been about thirty by sixty feet, and from what I hear, the congregation was never in any danger of outgrowing the facility. Now the only congregation is a host of silent trees, bowing and nodding in the bleak midwinter.