Dennis Lennox

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  Aug 17, 2025

  Travel: In Albany, a true Gothic cathedral

  The Cathedral of All Saints in Albany, New York, is one of those American churches that makes visitors do a double take.

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  Aug 3, 2025

  Travel: In Oneida County, history and renewal along the Erie Canal

  Nestled in New York’s fertile Mohawk Valley between the Adirondacks to the east and the Finger Lakes to the west, Oneida County is a relatively overlooked destination.

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  Jul 20, 2025

  Travel: This overshadowed European capital was formed by crusades and shaped by the Reformation

  The spires and pinnacles of old churches rise above cobblestone streets lined with red-brick buildings and pastel-hued facades that reflect centuries of conquest, trade and confession.

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  Jul 6, 2025

  Travel: Visiting Philadelphia as America prepares to turn 250

  All eyes are on Philadelphia as the United States begins the yearlong countdown to her 250th birthday.

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  Jun 22, 2025

  Travel: Postcard from New York’s Steuben County

  Steuben County is a world removed from what most people think of when they think of New York.

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  Jun 1, 2025

  In Victoria, finding English quaintness amid renewed Canada-US tension

  The Canadian city of Victoria has been called more English than the English.

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  May 11, 2025

  Travel: Visiting Azerbaijan, a little-known country at the crossroads of everything 

  Admittedly, this country wedged between Russia to the North, the Caspian Sea on the East and Iran to the South is hardly the first destination one considers when planning a trip.

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  Apr 20, 2025

  Travel: Italy’s Trento 5 centuries after the Counter-Reformation

  Trento, or Trent in English, could be mistaken for somewhere in the Austrian or Swiss Alps.

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  Apr 6, 2025

  Travel: Postcard from the Gulf of America

  By almost any American context, Galveston is an old city. Located about 52 miles from Houston, Galveston is a city and county on a 30-mile-long barrier island of the same name. Anyone who has ever taken a gulf cruise has probably come through the port.

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  Mar 23, 2025

  Travel: Visiting Turkey 1,700 years after the Nicene Creed was adopted

  It’s hard to imagine Christianity without the Nicene Creed. Seventeen hundred years ago, what became the defining statement of Christianity was adopted in Nicaea (present-day Iznik, Turkey). Back then, Iznik was an outpost of the Roman Empire under Emperor Constantine the Great in what used to be called Asia Minor.