Chapters I-III posted June 2004;
Chapter IV posted September 2004;
extracts from Chapters V, VI and VII posted February 2005

© Richard Major 2004 and 2005 priestincharge@stmarysi.com, email@richardmajor.com

 
A SELF-INDULGENT HISTORY OF
ST MARY'S CHURCH
IN CASTLETON, NEW YORK

Richard Major







PART ONE: PRIMAL SCENES
 
I Prehistory
A Tory chapter


 II The holy war
A High Church chapter


 III Elliottville follies
A bookish chapter


 IV Carnal Paternities
A genealogical chapter


 V Sacred Paternities
Our Apostolic Succession

PART TWO: HEAVEN'S GATE
 
VI Patricide
A chapter of
scandals


 VII Unholy war
A celebrity-packed chapter


 VIII The Mohawk sinks
A tragic chapter


 IX The Gilded Age
An opulent chapter


 X St Austen's Place
A triumphant chapter

PART THREE: ECCE ANCILLA DOMINI!
 
XI The Mohawk
sinks again
A financial chapter


 XII War and fire
An architectural
chapter


 XIII The English Church
A jolly chapter


 XIV Decline and
non-fall
A troubled chapter


 XV The coming of Mackley
An unfinishable chapter