| As a young boy, Bill Koch used to
dread his mother's annual Lenten pilgrimage to seven area churches,
a practice once popular with Roman Catholics as part of Easter
vigil traditions. He chuckles when he relates how miserable he
was during those childhood trips to church and how his loud complaints
must have been an additional penance for his mother to endure.
Yet even in his youth, Bill was awed by the grandeur of these
sacred places, and recognized a unique sense of well-being in
these magnificent sites. Little did he realize how his early appreciation
for those neighborhood churches would lead to a life spent championing
their preservation.
To read the rest of Carol
Bronnenkant' story, see page 48 in the Spring 2005 Heritage Magazine.
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