Love Always Rina

 Wonder if it’s normal. I miss our talks.  At least before we’d talk and get all our feelings out and sort of squared away for awhile, have a cry, a shoulder to lean on, then go on with the day.  It’s be OK. Now all these feelings and things just go around in my head and never come out. No one to talk about it who could relate the same way. Ya sure as shit can’t ask someone that’s never been in your shoes and expect a good answer they just don’t know. I could ask my brother but  I don’t. He’s a guy and his feelings would be different. Enough of rattling on about my wacked out feelings. I’m sure it’s the last thing you want or need to hear.  

   Well I’ve written another very long letter here. I hope one stamp is enough. If  not I guess it’s no great loss. The letter will just come back and end up in the trash.

    Like I said earlier, I’ll talk to Tom and force an answer out of him before the end of the week. Then I’ll let you know either by mail or phone.

     Tell everyone hi from all of us. When you can, write me. Please take care and be happy. Miss you tons and again I hope I didn’t upset you. If I did I’m sorry. I just had to ask someone. 

                                  Love always. 

                                                    Rina 

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The first Saints Parish

A parish outgrows it's first church and then abandons it's second location as parishioners move. It was during the 1820s and 1830s that Irish immigrants began pouring into Albany, and that South Albany was becoming increasingly Catholic.  Its Gothic Revival style was popular during this period. As the Catholic population in South Albany continued to swell The first Saints Parish was no longer adequate. Having been abandoned since the 1970s, it has fallen into serious disrepair.

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In my Darkest Hour

Ground was broken in 1855, the cornerstone laid in 1856, and completed in 1860 at a cost of approximately $250,000. The church is 14,000 square feet, 212 feet long, 116 feet wide, and built of blue limestone trimmed with Ohio sandstone. It incorporates 14 marble columns and 16 stained glass windows. There are three towers on the church, one large tower in front and two smaller twins in back. The main tower is 235 feet tall, is lit at night, and houses 10 bells. There are nine small bells with one large bell, they were cast at the Meneely Bell Foundry in Troy, New York at a cost estimated at $12,000 in 1906. The bells are activated through the pulling of oak levers in a chime room. The ceiling is in a hammer-beam roof style of wooden beams projecting from the roof and walls carved ornately with angels and religious symbols.

In my hour of need,
Ha, no, you're not there
And though I reached out for you,
Wouldn't lend a hand

Through the darkest hour,
Your grace did not shine on me
Feels so cold, very cold,
No one cares for me

I walk, I walk alone
To the promised land

There's a better place for me

But it's far, far away

Everlasting life for me

In a perfect world
But I got to die first,
Please God send me on my way

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This Old Manor

The property has been known at various times as the Heights, Woodburne, Woodbourne,

The Scott Estate, Little Flower, and Villa St Theresa.

The land on which the mansion stands was originally the a family farm which ran all the way

to the Creek and there are indications that the Great Minquas Path, a fur

trading route between the Susquahannock region and the Dutch fur trading posts, passed through the 

property.

It is said there were encampments on the "Heights of Darby" during the British occupation of 

Philadelphia (1777-1778)

Before the Civil War, the property was owned by George McHenry, President of the

Philadelphia Board of Trade, and a Southern sympathiser who went to England and arranged for 

shipments to go through the Union blockade. The land was sold at Sheriff's sale in April 1862

and the property then came under the ownership of Thomas A. Scott who served in

Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of War for Transportation and later as

President of the Pennsylvania Railroad..

His son, Edgar Scott, commissioned noted architect Horace Trumbauer to build the present mansion

in 1906 with the possible participation of Julian Abele.

Both Edgar Scott Senior and Edgar Scott Junior served with the Norton-Harjes American Volunteer 

Motorized Ambulance Service during the First World War.  Edgar Scott Senior died in France on 

October 20, 1918, 22 days before the Armistice. Edgar Junior married Helen Hope Montgomery

who had been the inspiration for Tracy Lord in "The Philadelphia Story."

The property was purchased by the Sisters of the Divine Redeemer in the 1930's. It is believed the 

postcard dates to the time the property was used as an orphanage. It later was a nursing home

and closed in 2005

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