Boston

Copp's Hill Burying Ground 

King's Chapel Burying Ground

 

 

Dog tags - one for each soldier killed 

in the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars

John F. Kennedy Presidential Library

John Hancock Tour - I.M. Pei

Houses near Boston Common

The USS Constitution in Dry Dock 

- where it will be for the next 3 years....

Granary Burying Ground

The Hare in Copley Square

Make Way for Duckling in

Boston's Public Garden

Near the USS Constitutuion

This is a picture of two buildings that seemed to have once had a hallway joining them, but it looks like it has been made into a tiny broom-closet office.  It was a beautiful evening.  It is across from the Boston City Hall building on School Street and Tremont.

Quick Stop today at the Stanley, NM Cemetery

High Road to Taos

Faribank, Arizona

Fairbank is a ghost town that was once a mining processing town that supported the mining occurring in Tombstone and Bisbee.  The town site is now on BLM land and is part of the protected San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area.  The entire town was sold in the early 1900s.  There was a lot of confusion, because people in the town believed they owned their property.  They were angry when they left so they destroyed their homes, or took their houses apart and moved them to a new location.   There is a cemetery north of the town, but since many of the markers were made of wood, there are few traditional grave markers remaining.

Sewanee The University of the South

I didn't take enough photos... and I doubt they would have captured the mood of the campus/town - but this is Sewanee - hands down the most beautiful college campus I have ever visited. All of the buildings are stone (like the library below). The houses look like doll houses. There are old barns on the outer edges of the campus/town. Horses graze in the green fields. Neil told me that the student in the regular semesters wear black robes when they go to class. Old school!


We were searching for a mummy that was photographed by Alfred Eisenstaedt and appeared in Life Magazine in the 1950s. Neil believes the mummy is a mummy Flannery O'Connor described in Wise Blood (he is writing an article to make all of the connections). I started calling the public relations office about the mummy when I landed in Atlanta on Monday. The public relations person did research and found there were two mummies. One that was owned by a fraternity (and no one knew where that was). And held in Woods Lab on campus. As the week continued and research continued, we found that the second mummy (that we were hoping to see) was buried in the campus cemetery. We didn't find where it was buried, but below is a picture of the cemetery.

National Cemetery at Battle of Little Big Horn

Boot Hill

Cemetery in Bernalillo

Dawson, NM Cemetery

We have been thinking about the miners who died in the West Virginia coal mining accident within the past week. It reminded us of Dawson, NM where 263 miners died in an accident in 1913 and 123 more men died in 1923.

Dawson was one of the biggest towns in NM at the time of these accidents with over 9,000 residents. In 1950 the town closed (it was a company town owned by Phelps Dodge). Today there are no buildings accessible on public land, but the cemetery is still open for families and visitors.

The white crosses represent people who were killed in the two mining accidents.






The cemetery also has many markers for people who lived in Dawson. The most recent marker was saw was from 2006, but most markers are from the early 1900s to the 1940s.
















The cemetery was put on the National Register of Historic Places because the cemetery is representative of America labor and a diverse immigrant population.