Twas the Week After Christmas: The end is near! Not your end (hopefully), but the year's end. What we need is a bridge that will carry us across the canyon and into 2017. The best bridge for the job is a covered bridge, and fortunately many of them are to be found in cemeteries. Barretts Chapel Cemetery. [2013]
Welcome to the underWorld! But, we will concentrate on what's on the surface: the living landscapes of the dead. All photographs taken by me, D.J.Z.
Friday, December 30, 2016
Wednesday, December 28, 2016
Monday, December 26, 2016
Chesapeake, Virginia
Twas the Week After Christmas: Here's proof that Santa stops at cemeteries. But, it's the day after Christmas, and the boxes remain unopened. Maybe they get opened on Boxing Day, which is today! Chesapeake Memorial Gardens. [2012]
Friday, December 23, 2016
Wednesday, December 21, 2016
Batesburg, South Carolina
Twas the Week Before Christmas: This is how we imagine the Holy Family: Mary and Joseph as a young woman and an old man. If Mary were not in her early teens when she gave birth to Jesus, that would be a surprise since it was the custom at the time for women to marry young. As for Joseph, there seems to be little reason to think he was much older than Mary. Men married young, too. Joseph may have been a few years older than his bride, but not decades (as suggested by this figurine). Amick Grove Pentecostal Church Cemetery. [2016]
Monday, December 19, 2016
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Twas the Week Before Christmas: The location is Chattanooga, so what would you expect in the middle of the national cemetery there? A Chattanooga Choo Choo, of course. Buried here are Medal of Honor recipients. They participated in the "Great Locomotive Chase" during the Civil War. Chattanooga National Cemetery. [2013]
Friday, December 16, 2016
Wednesday, December 14, 2016
Monday, December 12, 2016
Friday, December 9, 2016
Jefferson City, Missouri
Cemeteries as Museums of Telecommunications: The Palm Pilot has a small niche in the history of telecommunication, but the niche is so small some of us have a hard time remembering what this even did! Anyone have a love affair with their Palm Pilot that they would like to share? Hawthorn Memorial Gardens. [2015]
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Toms River, New Jersey
Cemeteries as Museums of Telecommunications: Remember when the cordless telephone first appeared? Remember when it became mobile? Telecommunication technology made a major leap forward in the early 1990s and marketing followed suit. Of course, the early adopters were the young. St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery. [2015]
Monday, December 5, 2016
Haines City, Florida
Cemeteries as Museums of Telecommunications: Remember when telephones looked like this? Remember when they all were black? Are you old enough to recall what a party line was? Even as the artifacts disappear, their granite images will exist for all time on cemetery headstones. Forest Hill Cemetery. [2014]