Browse Items (15 total) Browse All Browse by Tag Search Items Browse Map Tags: timelessness Previous Page Page of 2 Sort by: Title Creator Date Added "Rip Van Winkle whose experience is reversed" Alice Curtayne describes how traveling to Station Island is like stepping back into the fifth century Tags: 'Celtic' monasticism, Alice Curtayne, fifth century, isolation, medievalism, nostalgia, peace, pilgrimage, remoteness, repetition, timelessness, twentieth century "In going there they are answering the call for blood" "Most pilgrims develop for this rocky island and its harsh routine an affection that really defies explanation..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, blood, Catholicism, cultural memory, essentialism, ethnohistory, exile, familiarity, Irish identity, medievalism, nostalgia, pilgrimage, Station Island, timelessness, twentieth century "The very strangeness of the whole rite is like an old memory overlaid by time" "Many a pilgrim who goes to the Island for the first time remarks that the most surprising feature of the place is its obscure familiarity..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, cultural memory, pilgrimage, pilgrims, repetition, Station Island, stations, timelessness, twentieth century "Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it." "It is remarkable how completely the exterior world is shut out. Those trackless hills enfold the lake as though to hide it..." Tags: Alice Curtayne, barrenness, hills, isolation, lake, mountains, rhetoric, rural landscape, timelessness, tradition, twentieth century, water "We left the Island with dry skies but still carrying our fast with us" "Then, with hearts refreshed, we turned to accomplish the three remaining Stations..." Tags: boating, Catholic journalism, dryness, hills, Leslie family, pilgrim crossing, pilgrimage, pilgrims, Rome, Shane Leslie, The Tablet, timelessness, twentieth century, weather Previous Page Page of 2 Output Formats atom, csv, dc-rdf, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2