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By Dr. Jeff Mirus, Catholic Culture, July 21, 2023

 Jeffrey Mirus holds a Ph.D. in intellectual history from Princeton University. A co-founder of Christendom College, he also pioneered Catholic Internet services. He is the founder of Trinity Communications and CatholicCulture.org.

 

I have had occasion over the years to mention the time each Summer which my wife and I have been able to spend at the family “camp” (as summer places are called) on Willsboro Bay—in my opinion by far the prettiest bay on Lake Champlain in northern New York State. This is one of the experiences that is still publicly suggestive of God’s presence in New York, a reality which political leaders in the Empire State typically ignore, even when they are nominally Catholic.

The drive up from Virginia is about 600 miles, longer than strictly necessary because we avoid I-95 in favor of the scenic route through the mountains of Pennsylvania, all the way up to Binghamton, NY, and then east to Albany and up the Northway (I-87) through the Adirondack mountains to the Lake. …

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