A few weeks ago my wife and I drove from one end of Rhode Island to the other, from our hometown of Newport in the south to the city of Woonsocket in the north. This trip can be accomplished in little more than an hour while obeying speed limits.
We took the trip because we wanted to see a magnificent Catholic church, St. Anne's -- a church that is no longer a church because it has been de-sanctified or de-consecrated (or whatever the proper description is for an old church that has been religiously de-commissioned).
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