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50 years ago: The June 29, 1972 edition of the AJT featured an article entitled “Census Reveals Much About Averyites.”The 1970 census counted 12,655 residents inn the county; 0 percent

Religion scholar Maria Lichtmann felt a strangeness overcome St. Elizabeth of the Hill Country Parish in Boone, North Carolina, four years ago. Fr. Matthew Codd, the then-pastor at St. Elizabeths, was joined by a group of seminarians who went through the churchs theology library and removed books deemed heretical, including those of spiritual writers Henri Nouwen and Thomas Merton. The books were later burned, she was told by a parish staff member. Lichtmann, a retired religious studies profess...