Posted by PJH on November 08, 2016 at 12:03:41 from (104.235.133.124):
In Reply to: Photo contest posted by Hank ABAB on November 08, 2016 at 09:21:37:
Nice job Hank!
Someone mentioned the bell. Our little country church has a "death knell" bell. It has the normal clapper that hangs inside, and another clapper that is on the outside. I had never seen one like that until the first time I had to replace the bell rope. The regular rope wraps around a big circle, and when you pull it, the bell rocks back and forth and says "ding dong". The "death knell" rope hooks to a lever, and when you pull it the bell stays stationary, and it just says "dong". I asked the old timers in the church about the bell, and they said that it used to be a custom when someone in the neighborhood died, to ring the bell one stroke for each year of the deceased person's age. It's real hard to control the number of strokes with the regular bell rope, but the other rope rings only one time per pull. One old guy was 90 at the time and said he remembered plowing with a team and stopping to count the strokes, then mentally trying to figure out who in the neighborhood had passed away. The church sits on a hill overlooking the Mississippi River bottoms, and I'm told the church bell can be heard over in Missouri, across the river. Sorry to ramble - I like old country churches.
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