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When the Catholic Church Ran a Public School in Small-Town Texas
In a bizarre precedent to today’s debates over faith in the classroom, a local ISD let nuns run its school for twelve years.
Mary Ellen Christy, headmistress at preschool she started at Gold Coast church, dies at 80
Mary Ellen Christy in 1974 founded the St. Chrystostom’s Day School on the Gold Coast and went on to serve as its ...
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An UES street corner gets a new name — after a Holocaust museum in Israel
The new street sign, named for the Jerusalem museum built in 1953 as a memorial to victims of the Holocaust, is just a few steps from Park East Synagogue, the stately Orthodox congregation at 163 East ...
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Town Clock Church (A Stop on Indiana’s Underground Railroad)
The Town Clock Church in Albany, IN was a key stop on the Underground Railroad. Visit this historic church to learn the story.
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Historic Martha Wood Cottage built after Shurtleff College's 1877 Jubilee
The Martha Wood Cottage, built after Shurtleff College's 1877 Jubilee, later became part of the SIU School of Dental Medicine ...