If Phil Davis’s past was a road, it would parallel many of the young lives he touches each week at NorthBay, the Erickson-run environmental center and summer camp in North East, Md.

Barely 100 feet from Ground Zero, the floor of Rev. Stuart Hoke’s office shudders as a New York City subway train passes below St. Paul’s Chapel.  Dressed in a neat blue pinstripe suit, the slender but imposing Episcopal minister leans back in his chair.