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Hello everyone! This is my first post attempting to build my hometown of West Chester, Pa for the Build the Earth project. I have set up a community here on Steem for users to post their progress in, and earn rewards.
I had an elaborate plan to build my street for the "The Street Where I Live" writing challenge, but the mod pack did not recognize any of the buildings in my neighborhood as existing (likely due to the large amount of trees). I learned on the discord that I would need to manually outline the buildings, so I just decided to build something near my street. My childhood church (which is about 3 minutes away) (not to be confused with the church I now work at). Westminster Presbyterian Church is rather incredible as a building, and I decided it would be a very fun first project.
Build
For today, I only made the sanctuary. I apologize if any of the video seems choppy, I was learning as I went in regards to the replay mod.
Here is a side by side comparison:
Before I show the building process, I would like to explain the video's music choice.
For those of you who don't know, the world famous composer Samuel Barber grew up in West Chester. 100 years ago, he attended the same school district as me (which back then consisted of one school), and, at the age of 12, he became my church's paid organist. He would later leave because he did not agree with the way the church added fermatas to music. But, none the less, he is a huge idol in my area; especially at my church. As a result, I made the background his Agnus Dei (which is the music for the Adagio for Strings. Here is the first part of me building Westminster:
Conclusion
Thanks for reading this! If you are interested in joining in posting your progress in this project, here is the article I wrote about the community! See you next time!