Originally Methodist but now eager for any worshippers, this church stands alone and unused beside a back road. Its white-painted grooved siding rises into a soaring, flared spire topped with a Scandinavian metal ornament. Strikingly simple, it is a stark tombstone for the deceased agricultural town of Bowen (1883–1901).
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