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Michael the Iconographer
1st August 2004, 06:23 PM
They are back at it over in Oniondome land!:

http://www.theoniondome.com/2004/07/30/mm/

Your Orthodox World: Little-Known Orthodox Vacation Destinations in the U.S.A.
July 30, 2004
The Prosphor Museum. Erie, PA. Contains the world’s largest collection of prosphor seals of all types. An entire room is dedicated to photographs of personal collections of desiccated prosphora. Hourly baking demonstrations during June, July and August.

Judgment Land Mini-Golf. Sludgawuckee, TN. An amusement park for the whole family, run by a splinter group of The Exceedingly Really Truly Orthodox Church in America, Inc. Children and adults play mini-golf from toll-house to toll-house, experiencing simulated demonic judgments. A score of 27 or lower gets you into a simulated heaven. Don‘t miss the mini spiritual roller coaster by the seventh tee.

Holy Water World. Pogo, FL. Giant water park celebrates uses of water in Orthodox worship. See the hourly Dive for the Cross, a training ground for the best Epiphany divers. Exercise in the Bethsaida Lap Pool or simply sport with leviathan in the wave pool. The gift shop has a huge selection of Holy Water bottles, off-brand goggles and icons of the Lifegiving Spring. No bikinis.

One-Thousand-Two-Hundred-Fifty-Eight Flags Over Orthodoxy. Sunbird, AZ. This huge museum celebrates the checkered history of Orthodox nationalism and ethnocentrism. The original concept of an exhibit for each national group was abandoned when the founders were unable to get any two groups to agree on who was or was not part of any other ethnic group. Plan to spend the day.

The Museum of Orthodox Intransigence. Boring, OR. Run by The Institute for Orthodox Intransigence Studies, the Museum includes many hands-on exhibits, including a small church in which Orthodox from various parishes may team up to alternately install and remove pews. There is also a wonderfully colorless headscarf exhibit and an archive of parish meeting minutes. The annual Intransigence Games will be held August 17 - 19 this year, in the Institute’s auditorium. They include a tug-of-war between proponents of “Truly He is risen” and proponents of “Indeed He is risen” and a kiss-off among practitioners of various traditional ways of venerating icons. Seats go fast, so plan to arrive early on competition days.

This report was filed by Onion Dome deuce reporter Marie Moffitt
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Moros
1st August 2004, 07:27 PM
Amusing, though I would be interested in a definite itinerary for Orthodox destinations within the US. Would be a good guide that could be printed up and distributed. Like, you could list Orthodox churches on the national historic places register, list where certain relics are housed, bookstores, places like that.

InnerPhyre
1st August 2004, 07:29 PM
Tarpon Springs, FL is beautiful and has a HUUUUUUGE Greek Orthodox community. There are lots of Orthodox festivals throughout the year there......and GREAT baklava :)

ExOrienteLux
1st August 2004, 07:45 PM
Although I like the Onion Dome a lot, I was expecting an actual list of 'Orthodox Vacation Destinations', like Wilkes-Barre, PA, San Francisco, CA, Brooklyn, and the majority of Alaska. ;)

brewmama
2nd August 2004, 02:14 AM
But it WAS really funny!!

ExOrienteLux
2nd August 2004, 12:41 PM
I never said that it wasn't funny, just that I was expecting an actual article based on the subject line. I gave that up as soon as I saw it from the Onion Dome.

Wait a minute..... Where's Fr. Vasily?! That's two weeks in a row he hasn't shown up! IS OUTRAGE!!!!!!!!!!

Reader Nilus
2nd August 2004, 01:11 PM
Holy Trinity Orthodox Chapel in Wilkeson, Washington (http://www.wilkeson.com/) is on the national Historical register. and was blessed by St Tikhon of Moscow. Wilkeson is the gateway to the Carbon Glacier on Mt Rainier.
Jeff the Finn

Matthias
5th August 2004, 08:48 AM
Interesting.

Mary of Bethany
5th August 2004, 02:06 PM
One-Thousand-Two-Hundred-Fifty-Eight Flags Over Orthodoxy .

Now THAT's funny!

ExOrienteLux
5th August 2004, 02:09 PM
I thought that 1258 Flags was a little bit of a low estimate, don't you? :P