The University of the South at Sewanee is a legendarily southern Episcopal Church institution perched beautifully on a plateau in the hills of southeast Tennessee. Earlier this week on a road trip I stopped there. The mystically thick fog enveloping the mountain, enchanting but also perilous, persuaded me to spend the night.
Walking around the beautiful campus I was struck by similarities with Duke University, the similarly quintessential southern university of Methodism, its campus, like Sewanee’s, lined with majestic stone edifices, chief of which is the cathedral-like Duke Chapel.
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