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Shoshone girls/Chapel of the Holy St. John
7. Shoshone girls outside the Chapel of the Holy
Sts. John, Date Unknown (Wind River Archives at CWC)
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fact that his is an early photograph of the mission is demonstrated
by the absence of the shady apple and plum trees which now surround
the mission’s chapel. Perhaps these students were among the
first to enjoy the young trees. Later, students helped harvest the
fruit during the fall, but many also recalled climbing the trees
and slipping a secret supply of apples into their roomy black bloomers
when Rev. Roberts wasn’t looking. Mission girls are still remembered
as the “black bloomer gang.”
The chapel, which originally doubled as the main class room, was
also the setting for the beautiful Christmas services which all
who sent there remembered as the highlight of their school days.
Many recalled getting up before dawn and processing slowly, with
lighted candles, down the walkway of plum trees to the chapel, singing
memorized hymns.
It was decorated so pretty! It was so pretty and my Grandma
use to say she could hear the kids singing and she would just
imagine them coming down that pathway into the church. She said
you could hear them singing three or four different hymns by the
time they got there, just barely walking. (Pansy St. Clair)
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