old news from Olney

Yesterday, I was part of an enexpected coincidental double funeral
procession driving up most of the length of Cheltenham Avenue, which is a
northern Phialdelphia border. Individually we were already rather long
processions, in many places spanning from red light to red light. We both
went to Holy Sepulcher, a large Catholic cemetery just across the street
from Philadelphia. There was a distinct calm grandeur being within that
spontaneously moving double theater.

I have "Theatrics Times Two" pretty well thought through right now, and look
for more notice soon.

Other topics I feel the need to mention, at least briefly are:
...how about those mass non-graves of ignoble deception????? Leave it to me
to introduce that news (to some) yesterday.
...and Theodosius is still laying in state at Milan. Been reading up on 25
February way back when.

But what I found (out) today really gave me great joy. All I had to do was
read the first four paragraphs of the four typed page HISTORY OF OLNEY I
first read today at noon in the Greater Olney Free Library. I most recently
wrote about the very same place early last December re: the sacred tree in
Tacony Creek Park near where I've been sitting and architecting Quondam for
quite a long time now. Here are some excerpts:

"Olney derives its name from the home of Alexander Wilson which stood from
1840 to 1924 east of Rising Sun Avenue overlooking Tacony Creek. Wilson
chose the name because he was an admirer of the poet Cowper of Olney,
England, composer of the famous Olney Hymns of the Methodist Church."

"The backbone of Old Olney was Tabor Road. It was put through in 1776 under
King George III [19 Feburary 1776 maybe???] so that the Church of England
members living in Germantown could get to Trinity Church at Disston Street
and Oxford Avenue. Olney was born in a baronial atmosphere."

"The Olney area had little active connection with the Revolutionary War, but
Washington's troops maintained an obsevation tower at what is St. Helena's
Church today."

"The Delaware and Lenape Indian tribes occupied the Olney area and
maintained several campsites along Tacony Creek near the Roosevelt
Boulevard."

I guess what really makes me so happy today is that I now know (for sure)
that the place I first (fully) played as a child was also once, and probably
for many centuries(?), a Delaware or Lenepe campsite.

Steve