LOCAL • INDEPENDENT • FREE Volume 16
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Issue 2
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January 14 – January 20, 2022
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saratogaTODAYnewspaper.com
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The Legacy of Katrina Trask by Thomas Dimopoulos Saratoga TODAY
Inside Bethesda Episcopal Church on Washington Street at 11 a.m. on Jan. 11, 2022, during the ringing of the bells. In the distance, the main chancel window above the altar depicts a design developed by Katrina Trask and which was donated by the Trasks in honor of their daughter Christina. Photo by Thomas Dimopoulos.
SARATOGA SPRINGS — At precisely 11 a.m. on Jan. 11 2022, Kathleen Anspach commenced a tolling of the largest tenor bell at Bethesda Episcopal Church. It rang 68 times, one each to celebrate the 68 years of Katrina Trask’s life. It was precisely 100 years earlier, at 11 a.m. on Jan. 11 1922, when all the bells in all Saratoga Springs’ churches rang simultaneously as a funeral service for Katrina Trask was
held on the east side of the city at Yaddo. Saratoga businesses closed their shops early on the afternoon of Trask’s burial. Her grave is marked by a Celtic Cross of Adirondack granite and sits atop a knoll at the highest elevation of the Yaddo compound in an area named “Holy Hill.” A large public memorial ceremony was held that day at Bethesda Church - where Trask had offered the design of the chancel window above the altar, and a donation to the church of its prominent eagle lecturn. See Story pg. 9
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