Shortly after midnight on February 27, 1974, my great-grandfather left Lambert St. Louis International Airport with a church group on a flight bound for Tel Aviv, Israel. He spent the next week touring the Holy Land, stopping at popular pilgrimage sites and taking photographs along the way.
38 years later, in May 2012, Alyssa and I made that same journey from Kansas City. We spent about a week visiting many of the same sites my Pa visited, though I did not realize it at the time. Several months after we returned back to the States, my mom presented me with a flash drive for Christmas, loaded with—among many other family treasures—the entire collection of my great-grandfather's slides from Israel, converted into digital photos. Below are several photos that Alyssa and I took that later turned out to match the pictures taken by Roger Connelly between Feb. 27 and March 5, 1974.
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Church of the Annunciation, 1974 |
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Church of the Annunciation, 2012
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Inside the Church of the Annunciation, 1974 |
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Inside the Church of the Annunciation, 2012 |
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Church of the Nativity, 1974 |
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Church of the Nativity, 2012 |
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Church of the Nativity, 1974 |
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Church of the Nativity, 2012 |
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Marble Manger at the Church of the Nativity, 1974 |
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Marble manger at the Church of the Nativity, 2012 |
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Megiddo, 1974 (Note the date palm tree at the center of the photo) |
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Megiddo, 2012 (Same date palm, left foreground) |
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Entrance to Capernaum, 1974 |
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Entrance to Capernaum, 2012 |
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Capernaum capital piece, 1974 |
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On Lake Gennesaret, 1974 |
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On Lake Gennesaret, 2012 (I don't think this is exactly the same view) |
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On Lake Gennesaret, 1974 |
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On Lake Gennesaret, 2012 |
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Entrance to Gethsemane, 1974 |
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Entrance to Gethsemane, 2012 |
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Near the Pool of Bethesda, 1974 (Note column in right foreground) |
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Near the Pool of Bethesda, 2012 |
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The Pool of Bethesda, 2012 (Different angle) |
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The "Upper Room," 1974 |
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The "Upper Room," 2012 |
I love this! How neat to have these photos and to line them up next to your own. Very, very cool! :)
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