Gypsies At Heart: Trinity Heights

Monday, July 27, 2015

Trinity Heights

Our first stop this morning was Trinity Heights. I found it on the internet and we are both really surprised that none of the literature for tourists had this listed. It is an amazing place.

I was finding it hard to describe this place until I found this article from Roadside America. Click this link to read all about this marvelous place and what it has to offer. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12132

The following are pictures that we took on our visit. We didn't nearly take everything there was to see.

This is along the street heading to Trinity Heights

St. Michiael, the Archangel, greets you as you drive in.

Our first stop was in the St. Joseph Center and Museum where we went in to view the impressive 22 foot-long wood sculpture of the life-size Last Supper, one of only three in-the-round design wood sculptures in the world.

The Last Supper was completed in 1993 by carver Jerry Traufler of Le Mars, Iowa after seven years of work. He started with a pencil outline and then took the unique approach of shaping the characters based on his wife and friends, who posed for photographs dressed as individual apostles.

There are 12 apostles and Jesus in the Last Supper sculpture -- with James and Andrew sculpted as one unit. Each figure weighs 200 to 300 lbs. The work of art also includes individually carved goblets and unleavened bread on a massive table. The wood is basswood and pine.