I spent a bunch of time yesterday in the bowels of the church looking at architectural drawings from the 60s and the 80s. This was a lot of fun, now I understand why the buildings are so wonky and weird. I didn’t know there was a renovation in 1986 – get this, when the building was built in the 1960s, there was no kitchen built because they didn’t want women to be relegated to the kitchen. But can you imagine a church without a kitchen? Apparently, no because in 1986, they decided they needed a kitchen. It’s not like because of feminism, one doesn’t need food anymore, you can just have men in the kitchen!
I took Elka to this meeting, she had a great time – the entire thing was interesting. The plans were in the basement and we trudged down there expecting no one to be there, but it was filled with moms and kids running around, some trying to learn math, others just tumbling over one another, some running to greet Elka, others shying away from her. None of us regular congregants knew that the space was used in this way! It was fun.
