A brief travelogue can be found here. I skipped all the parts about Thoreau [ yawn ] and the boring roads on the way there...
The author, "greekamericangirl", painted a picture of the character of the Monastery, founded by a Greek, Fr Kallistos:
"Indeed, the diversity of the brethren is unique for an isolated corner of forgotten Appalachia. On my visit, I spoke to a young monk on the phone with a distinctive English accent, who alas could not give me directions because he did not drive. The monk making incense heralded from Japan; some monks were of Russian descent, others Greek, but the majority were American."
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Jarring phraseology cleared up : the author of these lines meant "hailed from" not heralded from.
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"The Hermitage of the Holy Cross also extends community across Orthodox denominations. From its inception, says [guest master] Father Hilarion, it has been Father Serafim’s vision to cultivate a pan-Orthodox union even before ROCOR unified with the Moscow Patriarchate. The monastery keeps close ties to other Orthodox churches: the Antiochian Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Huntington and Lexington, Kentucky; St. George’s and St. John’s both Greek; as well as other Russian and Bulgarian churches from West Virginia. “We might have our different traditions,” Father Hilarion says, “but we are one big Orthodox family.”