Two contemporary monuments united by central sheaf of wheat and little else.
Tag Archives: Mt. Auburn Cemetery
Flora!
An informal presentation of some floral shots I’ve taken. No commentary.
Ware ye the steamers!
While not jolly reading, it’s nevertheless interesting—and fairly rare—to hear on a monument of an unusual form of death. In Prospect Hill Cemetery (in D.C.), there is a tombstone of Marion Hays Colerider who was “shot and killed” at the age of 17 on 7 December 1900 (figure 1). Figure 1. Marion Hays Colerider monument. …
