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Cemetery of the Week #104: Lakeside Cemetery 22 Aug 2013 | 10:03 pm
Monument to Harry Blackstone, Harry Blackstone Jr., and Harry Blackstone III Lakeside Cemetery a.k.a. the Magicians’ Cemetery, Colon Cemetery Section 10, Farrand Road/County Road 145 Colon, Michig...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Carefree 21 Aug 2013 | 09:41 am
The grave of Ricky Dunn Earlier this month, I and a friend went off on a writing retreat for a weekend. It was glorious. We stayed in a “hermitage” in the woods, facing a meadow full of butterflies...
Casket Nomenclature: Component Parts of the Casket 20 Aug 2013 | 09:15 am
I just stumbled across this tonight. While it’s not exactly cemetery travel, I found it fascinating and thought you might, too. Casket Nomenclature: Component Parts of the Casket. Filed under: C...
Cemetery of the Week #103: Drummond Hill Cemetery 14 Aug 2013 | 05:42 pm
The battle monument at the top of Drummond Hill Cemetery Drummond Hill Cemetery 6110 Lundy’s Lane Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada Telephone: Niagara Falls City Hall (905) 356-7521 Founded: 1799 Size: ...
Cemetery of the Week #102: Old North Burial Ground 9 Aug 2013 | 07:08 am
Fireman monument, North Burial Ground, Rhode Island Old North Burial Ground 5 Branch Avenue at North Main Street Providence, Rhode Island 02904 Telephone: (401) 331-0177 Founded: 1700 Size: 109 ac...
Vintage view of the Medici Chapels 2 Aug 2013 | 08:07 am
The Church of San Lorenzo in Florence and the Medici Chapels by Aldo Fortuna My rating: 3 of 5 stars Illustrated with luminous black & white photos, this vntage guidebook to the statuary and graves ...
Cemetery of the Week #101: the Medici Chapels 1 Aug 2013 | 08:30 am
Exterior of the Chapel of the Princes, Church of San Lorenzo, Florence The Church of San Lorenzo Piazza di Madonna degli Aldobrandini, 6, 50123 Florence, Italy Founded: 1442 Number of interments: 40...
Weekly Photo Challenge: Masterpiece 28 Jul 2013 | 09:00 pm
Death and the Sculptor by Daniel Chester French The thing that drew me first to cemeteries was the artwork. From the six-foot-tall limestone tree trunk in the graveyard near my parents’ house to the...
Cemetery of the Week #100: the Burial Complex of Qin Shi Huang 25 Jul 2013 | 09:12 am
Photo from the exhibit at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, April 2013. Museum of the Terracotta Warriors Lintong District, Xi’an, Shaanxi province, China Founded: 246 BCE Size: 4 miles in circumf...
It’s Hard to be Famous After You’re Dead 18 Jul 2013 | 10:00 pm
Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses by Bess Lovejoy My rating: 4 of 5 stars Unlike the usual “how they died” encyclopedias, Rest in Pieces is an encyclopedia of “what happened to the...
