Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount The Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ on the Mount is a modest, single-room, hand-built wooden church near the summit of Meads Mountain in Woodstock, New York, originally constructed c. 1891. Services in the Sarum Rite of the Western Orthodox (Catholic) tradition are held each Sunday morning. It is purported to be the repository of a Marian weeping Icon. In the 1960s, Father Francis, the much-beloved "hippie priest", here welcomed hippies who had congregated in town during those years that culminated in the famous art and music festival. Fr. Francis began the
Mount Henry Peninsula Christmas tree ("Nuytsia floribunda"), with a very varied understorey the Mount Henry Peninsula is the only remaining bushland on the Swan Coastal Plain which includes plant communities of foreshores, limestone slopes, ridge woodlands and dampland. At the base of the hill there is a small stand of swamp cypress ("Actinostrobus acuminatus"). Along the riverbank there is a different range of flora, including "Juncus kraussii", "Scripus nododsus" and "Suadea australis". The area supports over one hundred native species in all. Two species of "Banksia" are found on Mount Henry Peninsula, "B. attenuata" (candlestick banksia) and "B. menziesii" (firewood banksia). "B. attenuata"