St. John Presbyterian Church: On the right side of New Albany street grid history.

Signs courtesy of the East Spring Street Neighborhood Association. Just imagine if all the churches located on New Albany's one-way speedway arterials took the same stance.

Two angles on St. John Presbyterian Church, only 76 years apart.

I snapped the photo while standing in the alley between Elm and Oak, just to the west of St. John Presbyterian Church. It's a rather mundane contemporary scene, at least until you contrast it with this painting by James L. Russell, one of the Artists of the Wonderland Way.

Apologies to the Carnegie Center; staff was not aware

that I ignored the "no photos" prohibition ... but I didn't use flash.

In Russell's painting from 1937, described as the view from his backyard, it looks as though St. John's is located in a Bavarian village, not a residential area in New Albany.

The Artists of the Wonderland Way exhibition runs through April 6. You need to see it.