Celebrated Cemeteries

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I can't wait to get back to england!

Great thread littlek


Here is an out of the ordinary virtual walk through Pere-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.


Not sure how well this works with dial-up


Virtual Cemetery

very interesting...

Since the Cimetière de Père Lachaise is really famous - it's quite crowded with tourists by this reason. Always.

I like the Cimetière de Montmatre better, visit it regularily (when I'm in Paris)

A couple of "residents" (= tombs of famous people, like Berlioz, Dalida, Heine, Sax ...) can be found (in French, but easy access) on this website (which is, btw, a sub-page of the one from Père Lachaise :wink: ).

I found a good listing of the various art pieces at Forest Hills Cemetery.

Installations

Some of my family are buried at Mount Hebron, where some of pretty famous Jews are also buried: http://www.findagrave.com/php/famous.php?page=cem&FScemeteryid=64154

I had known about Molly Picon's grave being there, but so are:
Jack Gilford
Lepke Buchalter
Alfred Eisenstaedt
Alan King

Apparently, oy, Barbra Streisand has a plot there, for the inevitable. Oy!

Forest Hills Cemetery, 2006

Mount Auburn Cemetery, 2006

Great pics, littlek! And what a perfect time of the year to post them! El dia de los muertos -- not to mention Halloween -- is just days away.

Some close friends of mine of days gone by are interred at Forest Hills. I may have mentioned this before, or not, that my parents are buried at Gethsemane Cemetery in West Roxbury, which is the site of Brook Farm, the Socialist utopian commune extablished by the likes of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne back in the 1840s. I also have a paid- for plot at Gethsemene, should the inevaitable overtake me unawares.

Thanks, Merry Andrew.

You mentioned earlier in the thread that your parents were burried in the West Roxbury Cemetery. And, I just reread that today. Now I want to go there, too.

Paid-for plot is great idea; one of the bestb things you can do for the loved ones who survive you.

And you get to dance on your own grave if you want to.

Great photos, littlek.

Many years ago (like 30) I used to enjoy wandering through an old cemetery in downtown Halifax Nova Scotia. A lot of the deaths were accidents on board ships that put in to the harbour so there were graves for people from all over. Now I'm going to hunt out my old photos for a spot of reminiscing.

Not a major cemetary.. but it is the oldest in austin..


Jillian and I go there alot to walk around.
But we have a favorite 'tree'

The way it sways, and some of the noises it makes stops us both in our tracks.

In this picture , you can see her in the bottom corner.
This was one of the times we both stopped and stared for quite a while at this tree.

wow.. i had forgotten about this thread..



love it.

That photo is poetic, shewolf!

Even in winter, Mt Auburn enchanted me. I parked in a corner I am not as familiar with and slip-slide-squished my way through the ice and mud. I found an au naturel glen with pine-needle pathways and stepping stone head stones. A hawk called above me and watched me while I talked to it. Leaves, seeds, needles burned holes through the ice. A even found some coyote scat. Coyotes in Cambridge. I also found some old 'friends' - the shell headstone and the tree's knees..... This year marks Mt. Auburn's 175th anniversary.

This headstone was a globe. It had every major land mass on it. Here's North and South America



A celtic cross had much detail, here is one small section of it



On a hill overlooking Halcyon Lake is a monument to Mary Baker Eddy, these stairs lead up to a rose garden under stone gazebo

it might be neat to give this cemetery its own thread!

sort of like a virtual tour.



When you go back, that celtic cross ... ? Are you able to get a picture of the entire thing?
Or is it too big?

I thought I'd started it's own thread, but I hadn't. The celtic cross came up to my bust, probably. But the detail was pretty fine, so if I took a full height shot, you'd miss a lot. I'll try to find one that's more zoomed out.

I just checked, I don't have any that are much further out. I'll try to get to it next time I go.

Here's the twig-effect on snow.



And one more tombsotne detail

Nice ones, littlek!

Especially like the twig/ snow.

And thanks for starting all this cemetary-gazing, it was a good idea. :-)