h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Superb photo - the black and white really brings out the textures of the brickwork and the windows

Very nice ramp, too - I like that

Yeah, they did an elegant job with that ramp.

All I know about Shiloh is that it was where a Civil War battle was fought.

But South Carolina has a Shiloh Methodist Church, a wooden structure wich doesn't look like the church in the photo.

And there's also a reconstructed Shiloh Church, which looks like neither f the above.

And Pennsylvania has some Shiloh churches, in Easton and Danville at least.

Solid picture. Nice lighting.

It is a good primer for explaining basic geometrical shapes. Plenty of (half-) circles, triangular roof, rectangular tower.

Hey, good thought there, CRE. I can see you think pedagogically.

It's called Richardsonian Romanesque, after some American lunatic who revived Romanesque architecture, but wasn't, erm, a purist about it.

Paul, this church is on the road out of Hooverville toward the Misty Mountains State Park.

Is that North or South of Rivendell?

I think thinking pedagogically is kind of contagious in my surroundings.

Surrounded by teachers? Or potential learners?

Parents and parents in law are all teachers, wife is studying to become one, kind of thing.

Family business, I see. What's your wife's specialty?

I taught languages for years (in between other odd jobs), one of my sisters was a physics teacher, her husband an Earth Science teacher, and the other sister taught music. Very funny, because nobody in either of our parents' families had ever done anything of the sort, being farmers, mechanics, engineers, etc.

My nephew's teaching physics now, and coaching robotics teams. I think it's become, er, a tradition. The next generation is considering it.

Thank for the context, Dmitri.

No problem!

My wife is training for Primary school teacher (preferably the bit before adolescence kicks in). My father: Maths / Religion / Dean. My mother: Primary school. Father in law: Primary school (head master), Mother in law: PE.

Wow - that's an impressive array of specialties! I know what you mean about avoiding adolescence.

Unfortunately we already have two of those in-house with home schooling.
From next week they will be going back to school for some days a week though.

Some people try to avoid adultescence as well. Tom Lehrer joked that he wanted to go directly form adolescence to senility without passing through adulthood.