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Title
Olney Pancake Race
Artist
Stephen Stookey
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Buckinghamshire market town of Olney comes alive each Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday preceding Ash Wednesday) as women festooned in apron and scarf, frying pan and pancake in hand, line up to race from city center to parish church. The tradition dates to the mid-1440s. Legend holds a local woman, busily preparing pancakes for her family's Shrove Tuesday observance, lost track of time before the day's service. When the bells at St. Peter's and Paul's Parish Church announced the service, the startled woman sprinted to the church still in apron and scarf, pan and pancake in hand.
Olney's historical significance runs much deeper than the annual Pancake Race. This quiet market village emerged as a leading light in England's growing 18th century evangelical movement. Local Church of England parish priest John Newton, best known as the composer of Amazing Grace, galvanized England's evangelical movement in the late-eighteenth century. Newton befriended Baptist ministers John Sutcliffe and William Carey, and encouraged the pair in their promotion of an evangelical Calvinism and global missionary efforts among English Particular Baptists. The Newton-Sutcliff coalition in Olney foreshadowed the evangelical alliances that would characterize 19th century English religious dissent.
John Newton and his close friend William Cowper (English poet & hymnodist) shaped English hymnody--their work forming the core of the famous Olney Hymns published in 1779.
Olney's picturesque city center sign pays tribute to its famous parish church (atop the sign), the annual Pancake race, and William Cowper & John Newton. (Newton's name appears in the open book opposite that of Cowper.)
Image captured with Canon equipment.
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1/2/2015
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December 30th, 2014
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Loving The Annapolis Valley, NS - Canada
Great story to go along with this wonderful historical sign.
Port Orchard, WA - United States
I have a thing for signs - love this one. Appreciate the details in the descriptive panel.
Wooster, OH - United States
Love this Stephen.I thought it was a building until I pulled the whole image down and seen it was a sign.
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