Cemetery Visitors: It looks like this couple is practicing for their final exits. They couldn't find a finer cemetery: more worth visiting than most art or history museums. Even presidents are buried here. Hollywood Cemetery. [2012]
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, June 28, 2019
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Las Vegas, Nevada
Cemetery Visitors: He has turned the graveyard into a park, and has come equipped with an umbrella. In this context, though, we should really call it a parasol since it is meant to protect against (para) the sun (sol). However, it really doesn't seem like it is doing him much good. Palm Downtown Cemetery. [2016]
Location:
1325 N Main St, Las Vegas, NV 89101, USA
Monday, June 24, 2019
Cathedral City, California
Cemetery Visitors: Your assignment is to write an essay on "Cemeteries as Recreational Space." Don't forget to mention family recreation, which seems to be what's going on here. These folks will spend the day enjoying each other's company, while honoring the ancestors. To the park they have come: equipped for more than a short visit. Desert Memorial Park. [2017]
Labels:
California,
desert,
people
Friday, June 21, 2019
Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Concord, New Hampshire
Labels:
art,
New Hampshire,
people
Location:
141 N State St, Concord, NH 03301, USA
Monday, June 17, 2019
Steinbach, Manitoba
Cemetery Visitors: All three of the folks pictured here date back to the original settlement of Steinbach by German-speaking Mennonites from Ukraine, which was then a part of the Russian Empire. The name on the headstone is one of the most common Plautdietsch names in these parts. Heritage Cemetery.[2012]
Friday, June 14, 2019
Destin, Florida
Cemetery Visitors: He walks here regularly. It gives him exercise, but it also gives him the opportunity to be close to his parents. Just guessing, but his mom and dad (born in the '30s) look like they could have been 'come-heres,' and he looks like he might be a 'born-here.' Destin Memorial Cemetery. [2017]
Location:
120 Sibert Ave, Destin, FL 32541, USA
Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Crossville, Tennessee
Cemetery Visitors: She has come again to tend the graves of her parents. Not sure about "again." but her deportment seems so practiced. Not sure about "parents," but the chronology on the headstones fits. If they are her parents, the year 2007 must have been a low point in her life: Both died that year, and within a few months of each other. Coincidentally, they were also born within a few months of each other. Crossville City Cemetery. [2019]
Location:
617 E 1st St, Crossville, TN 38555, USA
Monday, June 10, 2019
Friday, June 7, 2019
Wednesday, June 5, 2019
London, Ontario
Cemetery Visitors: A visitor to the cemetery might wipe down the headstones of family members, but they might also tend to the flowers that are planted on the grave's topside. St. Peter's Cemetery. [2013]
Monday, June 3, 2019
Winter Garden, Florida
Cemetery Visitors: Cemeteries are for the living as well as the dead. Many who visit are there to take care of a family member's final resting place. Whenever you see flowers on a grave, you know that somebody still cares. Here, not only do you see flowers, you also see a survivor wiping down a loved one's headstone. Winter Garden Cemetery. [2018]
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