Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York - Nikon D300 - my classy Lady, Julia
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York - Olympus C3100Z - I don’t know what to make of this family. Interesting.
Beech Grove Cemetery, Rockport, Massachusetts - Olympus C3100Z - we could all use a little help from time to time, even after time stands still apparently.
Pittston Cemetery, Pittston, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York - Olympus C3100Z - Georgie died of Scarlet Fever at 5 years old. Sculptor of note is Charles Calverley. The light was just right on my visit. It took some time removing reflection but ended up leaving the flag.
Burial Hill, Plymouth, Massachusetts - Nikon D300
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Concord, Massachusetts - Canon EOS 5D - Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, dark romantic, and short story writer. His works often focus on history, morality, and religion.
Kings Chapel Burying Ground, Boston, Massachusetts - Nikon D300 -Bartholomew Gedney - Coat of Arms - Emmes, Nathaniel and/or Emmes, Henry
Hazleton Cemetery, Hazelton, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - I liked the light on the cross but took out the surrounding grass and a litter of broken stone.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York - Nikon D300 - acid rain does its own carving.
Carverton Cemetery, Kingston Twp, Luzerne Co, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300
West Pittston Cemetery, West Pittston, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300
Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - it wasn’t their first stop. Many were disinterred from shallow graves on the Civil War battlefield and moved locally or sent home.
Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300
Gettysburg National Cemetery, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - all Vets are welcome to rest here.
Rosemont Cemetery, Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - I’ve leaned against a tree a few times.
Miller Cemetery, Clark Summit, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - Babies smile in their sleep because they’re listening to the whispering of angels.
City Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - not unlike my first apartment in Great Neck, New York.
Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New York - Nikon D300 - just having some fun with these three.
City Cemetery, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - Elizabeth died in 1920 at 7 years old.
Brookside Cemetery, Chester, Vermont - Nikon D300 - different filters for different sections.
Brookside Cemetery, Chester, Vermont - Nikon D300 - when there’s a lot of annoying stuff - trees, wires, etc - in the background, I resort to blackout.
Old Tennent Cemetery, Manalapan, New Jersey - Nikon D300 - the natural light on the front of the church, and on the lone stone appealed to me in the way of Homecoming…like in the movies.
Old Tennent Cemetery, Manalapan, New Jersey - Nikon D300 - the Old Tennent Church with customers.
Old Tennent Cemetery, Manalapan, New Jersey - Nikon D300
Old Tennent Cemetery, Manalapan, N.J. - Nikon D300 - The bathing etiquette of the 18th and 19th centuries meant that men could not see women and their bodies. So the beaches, frequented by each gender, were well separated. Bathing machines became popular. This image looks very much like a Victorian Bathing Machine. LOL
Tannersville Union Cemetery, Tannersville, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300
Pittston Cemetery, Pittston, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York - Nikon D300 - of course I had to lighten the family relief, and that’s OK in art.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York - Nikon D300 - as well, it reminds me of a collection of antenna on the roof of an apartment building from before digital signal. Yes, I remember those days, rabbit ears and all.
Upper Octorara Church Cemetery, Parkesburg, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - Will is cozying up to Jane, a married woman, as Susanna looks on. Scandalous!
Trucksville United Methodist Cemetery, Shavertown, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - a cross, and an empty bottle of booze. What more can be said.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School Cemetery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - the first American Indian boarding school and the model for the 26 other Indian Boarding Schools in the country. The place where “kill the Indian, save the man” first became an educational policy.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School Cemetery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - it opened in 1879 as the first government-run boarding school for Native American children. The goal? Forced assimilation of Native children into white American society under the belief of “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.”
Carlisle Indian Industrial School Cemetery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - From 1879 until 1918, more than 10,000 Native American children from 140 tribes attended Carlisle.
Carlisle Indian Industrial School Cemetery, Carlisle, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300 - At least 189 students were buried at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School's cemetery.
Fort Hill Cemetery, Auburn, New York - Nikon D300 - President Lincoln’s Secretary of State
Fitch Cemetery, Falls, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300
Old Tennent Cemetery, Manalapan, New Jersey - Nikon D300
Turkey Hill Cemetery, Merrimack, NH - Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Maple Hill Cemetery, Dorset, Vermont - Nikon D300
The Burying Point, Salem, Massachusetts - Nikon D300
Mt. Hope Cemetery, Rochester, New York - Nikon D300
Linwood Cemetery, Weston, Massachusetts - Nikon D300
Wadsworth Cemetery, Danvers, MA - Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Oak Grove Cemetery, Gloucester, MA - Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Union Cemetery, Rockport, MA - Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Wyoming Cemetery, Exeter, Pennsylvania - Nikon D300
Family Plot - Civil War Antietam Battlefield - Mamiya NC1000 - the Mumma Farm - the center of the Civil War, Battle of Antietam - Sept. 17, 1862. 25,000 men fell on that one day, and is noted as the bloodiest day in American war history.
Wyoming Cemetery, Exeter, PA - Nikon D300 - Shortly after the historic battle of Gettysburg, Confederate prisoners of war were marched through Northeast Pennsylvania to an internment camp located in Syracuse, N.Y. One Confederate soldier died somewhere between Forty Fort and Wyoming so the story goes. He ended up buried in the Cemetery of Wyoming.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York - Olympus C3100Z - a Green-Wood Cemetery winter.