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The Church in the Wildwood : ウィキペディア英語版 | The Church in the Wildwood "The Church in the Wildwood" is a song that was written by Dr. William S. Pitts in 1857 following a coach ride that stopped in Bradford, Iowa. It is a song about a church in a valley near the town, though the church was not actually built until several years later. In the years since, the church has become known simply as "the Little Brown Church". == Origins of the song ==
During a stagecoach ride to visit his fiancée in Fredericksburg, Iowa, the stage stopped at Bradford and allowed Pitts time to wander the area and enjoy the woodlands. Pitts found particular beauty in a wooded valley formed by the Cedar River. While viewing the spot, Pitts envisioned a church building there and could not seem to ease the vision from his mind. Returning to his home in Wisconsin, he wrote "The Church in the Wildwood" for his own sake, eventually saying of its completion, "only then was I at peace with myself."〔Longden, Tom. "Famous Iowans." http://desmoinesregister.com/extras/iowans/pitts.html URL accessed on June 3, 2006〕 By 1862 Pitts was married, and he and his wife moved to Fredericksburg to be near her elderly parents. He was surprised upon his return to the area to find a church being erected where he had imagined it five years before. The building was even being painted brown, because that was the least expensive color of paint to be found. During the winter of 1863-64 he taught a singing class at Bradford Academy. Pitts had his class sing the song at the dedication of the new church in 1864. This was the first time the song was sung by anyone apart from Pitts himself.〔Fairbairn, Robert Herd. ''History of Chickasaw and Howard counties, Iowa, Volume 1''. S.J. Clarke Publishing Company, 1919, p. 228.〕〔Official site of The Little Brown Church of the Vale, history page http://www.littlebrownchurch.org/churchhistory.cfm〕
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