The Story of Father Francis, Part two
Father Francis radically changed the spiritual life of Woodstock more than any Christian clergyman before or since.
Father Francis radically changed the spiritual life of Woodstock more than any Christian clergyman before or since.
The clergyman, who presided over the Church on the Mount atop Meads Mountain from the 1930s until 1979, who enchanted Woodstockers, married many and guided the spiritual needs of an unruly community, said his great turning point was assisting Clarence Darrow in defending a high school teacher arrested for teaching evolution in “The Scopes Monkey Trail.”