Churches

If the next Hocking Hills novel runs into the Christmas season (it probably won't), I should definitely touch on the seasonal concerts at the Basilica of St. Mary of the Assumption in Marietta. More so in that James Fry’s girlfriend attends classes in that city, and is Catholic, to boot (as is James).

the basilica at Marietta

The church’s architecture is described as Spanish Colonial, quite different from the Gothic style of those in Athens and Logan, both built in the 1890s and both visited in the course of ‘These Remembered Hills.’ I attended St. John in Logan myself as a child (though only for one brief year or so).

I should mention that Pam Nossi does not attend Marietta College, which presents the concerts, but is attending a hair dressing school. That shouldn’t keep them from enjoying the music, however! Marietta College began presenting the concerts (which include Handel’s ‘Messiah’) in 1926, so it already had a long tradition when my story is set in 1962.

Now if he can only convince Pam to ride down there in his open Jeep.

St John church in Logan OH