Lady of the Lake

Lady of the Lake Roman Catholic Church is on Highway 175 midway between Middletown and Kelseyville. You want to go when the caretaker is there. He was wonderful. He said, "It was built by the Italian Community up here. There's 75 come now, but in the summer it's 400. It's 10-15 degrees cooler here than Clear Lake. A prominent family needed a chapel for a Catholic wedding. So they built this church, then had the wedding elsewhere. We have the same priest as St. Joseph's in Middletown, but they have a quonset hut and folding chairs. Here there are pews and a steeple. I say that's a church." On the south wall are stations of the cross. In every arch in the north wall is a door. "We used to open all the doors in the summer, because the church couldn't contain all the people. Back then everyone came to church." Down the road from the church is Karisma Hair.