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Mac Gatch, a summer resident of Wellfleet since the 1960s, has recently published a history of his family Till the Break of Day: Philip Gatch and Some Descendants Through Three Centuries - from about 1720 in Maryland to 1960 in Ohio. His ancestors were among the first converts to Methodism, whose anti-slavery convictions brought them to move from Virginia to Milford, Ohio, in 1798. In Ohio they were farmers, participants in civic life, pillars of the Methodist church, and (increasingly) earned their living as businesspeople in Cincinnati. By 1960, the farms had been embraced by urban growth, and Mac had returned to the Episcopal Church, which his great-great-great grandfather had left for the more enthusiastic Methodism two centuries earlier.
Mac (more formally Milton McC. Gatch), was Academic Dean and Provost at Union Theological Seminary in New York, and also served for many years a priest-in-charge of the seasonal Chapel of St. James the Fisherman in Wellfleet. He will talk about his book with a longtime friendnow one of his successors at the chapelTracey Lind, who in her off-Cape life is dean of the Episcopal Trinity Cathedral in Cleveland.
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