The Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens, near Wilmington NC

Gmail Catherine Todd
Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens, near Wilmington NC
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Catherine Todd Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:53 PM
To: Ann & Carl Hann
Dear Ann,

I did a google image search and came up with all these wonderful "chapels" to build out of glass bottles! Can't wait to get started at Lake Atitlan! Here's my search from below, I looked up NC "bottle chapel" et voila!

Google Image Search:

http://www.google.com/images?as_q=NC&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=bottle+chapel+&as_oq=&as_eq=&imgtype=&imgsz=&as_filetype=&imgc=&as_sitesearch=&safe=images&as_st=y

For one actual site with lots of pictures:

http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/bottlechapel1-LONG.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001187.html&h=300&w=489&sz=96&hl=en&start=1&sig2=FwkCBFcA0-zKOuecV8rbpQ&tbnid=zW0WPzxSsLNWsM:&tbnh=80&tbnw=130&ei=gl0TSIrPEaaied7xqcAC&prev=/images%3Fq%3DNC%2B%2522bottle%2Bchapel%2B%2522%26as_st%3Dy%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG

Also, if you want to see where I'm staying now in Panajachel, Lake Atitlan, go to LosEncuentros.com, click on "English" language and you will see a lot of photos of the place (beautiful) and my little upstairs studio with white fireplace and lake and volcano view. For the first time, with the "Bottle Chapel" idea, I'm not scared to go back Tues. and get started on those lots! Now you and Carl with HAVE to come over to visit as he could also build- build- build while he's there, and you can lay-lounge-spa in the big outdoor hot tub and pool I'll build with hot mineral volcanic water piped in daily. Hah!

See you Sun. for dinner somewhere, or Monday before I leave on Tues. a.m.? I hope so... Your friend, Catherine

Another web address if the other doesn't work right: www.krepcio.com/vitreosity/archives/001187.html

(hit "refresh" to get the most recent version of this page)

This section is devoted to houses and other structures created predominantly with bottles. For the most part, bottles were used because they were free and easy to work with. Despite most of their creators' limited experience in construction, and exposure to desert heat, winter snow and neglect, the houses have stood up pretty well. Many of the builders speak of a spiritual atmosphere of the buildings' interiors. When the sun hits the bottles, there are said to be kaleidoscopic rays and a stained glass effect. Bottle houses seem to be almost entirely a North American phenomenon.

Grandma Prisbrey's Bottle Village (Simi Valley, CA)
Rockome Gardens (Arcola, IL)
Charlie Yelton's Bottle Houses (Forest City, NC)
Tom Kelley's Bottle House (Rhyolite, NV)
Doc Hope's Bottle House (Hillsville, VA)
Plumb's Bottle Castle (British Columbia, Canada)
Other Bottle Houses

Here it is with Christmas Lights! http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2359/2085260475_e22fec7c78.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.groveproject.org/2007/12/07/airlie-christmas-lights/&h=375&w=500&sz=171&hl=en&start=25&sig2=YipXl-iXbz6hWwej_NtQ1w&tbnid=EJLxK60Vtcv4ZM:&tbnh=98&tbnw=130&ei=bGMTSLbgDoyaea6R1a8C&prev=/images%3Fq%3DNC%2B%2522bottle%2Bchapel%2B%2522%26start%3D20%26as_st%3Dy%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN


Bottle Chapel. Airlie Christmas Lights.jpg
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Book from Blair Publishing:

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The Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens
A Tribute to Minnie Evans

Fred Wharton and Susan Taylor Block

The Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens

978-0-9791403-6-5
$19.95 paperback
9 X 7
32 pages
50+ full-color photographs

The Publishing Laboratory of UNC-Wilmington

Available in APRIL


Minnie Evans is considered one of America's most important visionary artists. Evans's take on color, mysticism, and symmetry made her garden-infused art unique. Wharton chronicles the inspiration, design, and construction of the Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens, a tribute to Minnie Evans. With over fifty full-color photographs and a narrative based on interviews with all eight Bottle Chapel artists, this book collects, for the first time, the story of Minnie Evans, her visionary art, and the garden that now memorializes her.

about the authors
Fred Wharton, a native of Great Britain, taught Elizabethan drama at Glasgow University in Scotland, and then at Augusta College in Georgia, where he chaired the English department. A member of Airlie Gardens Guild, he is married to Rosemary DePaolo, Chancellor of the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

Susan Taylor Block, a Wilmington native, is the author of a number of Wilmington history books including Airlie: The Garden of Wilmington. Currently Airlie historian, she served as a screenwriter for the documentary Beneath the Airlie Oak and is a published poet.


Also from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Bottle-Chapel-Airlie-Gardens-Tribute/dp/0979140366/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1209244528&sr=8-8

Book from Blair Publishing:

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cover of book, $19.95


Bottle Chapel at Airlie Gardens.Minnie Evans.jpg
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