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When do moviegoers become pilgrims?

  • Written by S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate, Visiting Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College
imagePilgrims at Lourdes.Nick Thompson, CC BY-NC

Among the millions of travelers heading out for the summer holidays, some are choosing an unlikely destination: a rusted bus on the edge of the Alaskan wilderness.

Fairbanks Bus 142 (aka the “magic bus”) is where the 24-year old Chris McCandless died in 1992. Well-educated and economically...

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