We made it to the Annual Meeting!
Afterwards, lunch at Aoki's room.
Outdoor tour of Wallkill.
Wallkill's clean water reservoir
Maple leaf
Wallkill cemetery
Bethelite's gathering with their Annual Meeting guests.
Lunch with Rick and Ronnie.
Ronnie gives us a factory tour.
This is a huge roll of paper! It is 14 miles in length, and just one weighs 3,800 pounds! One roll last 25 minutes and its printed for the magazines.
Chuukese is in there!
Braille.
Special machines for braille.
The title (in Braille) is on the stem.
These books were rebound with soft covers and are sent to prisoners in higher security facilities.
Mom learns about signatures
The signatures travel through the machines...
...Turns into covered books, ready for shipping.
The covers goes through a process too.
Embossing
Vinyl
Glue
I was able to order a song book in Chuukese, a Micronesian language!
Wallkill grounds
A text from home... became Gary's default screen.
GPS to Patterson, NY
Leaving the country side... Heading to Brooklyn Bethel.
Opening day: Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Inventions that changed the world...
For e.g. Nobel was known as the "Merchant of Death" for his dynamite.
The bloody history of Christianity room.
The first color, motion, sound movie in the world.
The movie room.
Sound cars.
Early songs and song books.
Execution letters
The paper JW's can sign to get out of concentration camps if they renounce their faith and support Hitler.
A window through time.
Mini lit.
Toilet paper lit.
A gas can with a false bottom.
"Just see yourself"
Old Japanese literature in old Japanese language.
Brooklyn Bethel
Our tour
How Jehovah sees the earth... No lines.
Rooftop
Tunnel between buildings
This family was my Mom's first contact with the truth (in Hawaii, in Japanese).
The cleanest garbage truck you'll ever see!
The new Archive's Display (Historical Exhibition) in Brooklyn Bethel's lobby.
Let the light shine.
A window through time.
A picture in Brooklyn Bethel of Micronesia (bottom middle).
Shari Ajimine (blue), Kiyomi Sirai (pink), Tetsuko and sister (sitting), Rodney Ajimine (taking the picture).
New Jersey Japanese congregation meeting.
Gary sang in Japanese (Tania romanized the songs for him). Lol! Was fun!
