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Post by bixaorellana on May 30, 2012 23:05:07 GMT
Super composition & theme on that last one!
Kimby's last photo is lovely & poignant.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 5:04:25 GMT
Haphazard old cemeteries are great.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 6, 2012 14:35:16 GMT
I'm sad that the recent move toward cremation, which makes sense in so many ways, means that cemeteries may become a thing of the past. Family histories will grind to a halt with my grandparents' generation, except for electronic records of people's birth, marriage and death...
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Post by Deleted on Jun 6, 2012 16:50:32 GMT
Ah, but we will also have virtual cemeteries online where everybody lives forever.
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Post by Kimby on Jun 6, 2012 19:13:27 GMT
Would these be blogs and forums that proliferate until there are so many and the participants are so diluted that they all become graveyards?
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Post by Kimby on Jun 9, 2012 14:00:38 GMT
nycgirl's photo at #89 (darn these page breaks!) gave me a deja vu feeling. I dug out this snapshot from a trip to Boston and scanned it for comparison: Not the same stone, but very similar.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2012 17:20:52 GMT
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Post by Kimby on Jun 9, 2012 18:45:02 GMT
They do pack em in! Where is that K2?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2012 19:00:02 GMT
That's the Montparnasse cemetery this afternoon. Did you spot Samuel Beckett, Jean-Paul Sartre and Eugène Ionesco?
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Post by tod2 on Jun 10, 2012 8:43:29 GMT
Kerouac, please forgive me for adding this snippet of information about the cemetery - Some might wonder what that round building is doing there? Looks like what is obviously is - a windmill. Before it was confiscated during the french Revolution, the cemetery's grounds belonged to the Christian Ordre de la Charite` - their one time windmill still stands and is the only windmill to have survived in the 14th. The sails have longone, and there was talk of fixing new ones. In the early 17thC, when the rubble mound of Montparnasse was still in existence, the jolly youths of the Latin Quarter who used its lofty position to recite verse would wind up at the windmill to feast on homemade galettes washed down with cheap wine. The windmill was frequented by the students well after the mound had been levelled and into the 18thC. It's claimed Voltaire was among the merry band.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 10, 2012 10:15:06 GMT
Cool pics and great bit of history there. Thanks.
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Post by nycgirl on Jun 16, 2012 1:07:46 GMT
Nice photo, Kimby. I saw a lot of those tombstones with the skull-and-wings motif.
Love the sprawling overhead shot, K.
Yours is pretty too, Casimira. Is that the big one in NOLA?
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Post by lugg on Jun 16, 2012 7:20:04 GMT
Great photos guys and all so different.
Casi- Are the graves in Nola above ground because of the risk of flooding ?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 16, 2012 10:03:54 GMT
NYCgirl, that is one of the larger cemeteries yes. I can't recall the name of it off the top of my head, it's out in MidCity but not in the same place where there is a cluster of them. I do know that it is one of the older ones in town.
Yes Lugg, the cemeteries in NOLA are unique in that they are all above the ground because of our being below sea level.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 19, 2012 20:50:26 GMT
Casimira, isn't that St. Roch?
Super photo!
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2012 1:39:39 GMT
Thank you! I don't know the name of it but it's the one on Esplanade Avenue very close to Bayou St. John, not far from City Park. Is that St. Roch? They sure do get alot of tour buses. I took this while on a bike ride, I did a quick spin through.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 21, 2012 6:11:08 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2012 6:10:09 GMT
The ghosts have washed their shrouds, I see.
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Post by nycgirl on Sept 9, 2012 22:56:12 GMT
That is a surprisingly homey cemetery.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 10, 2012 0:16:08 GMT
Strange how the sheets fit right into the scene, isn't it? NYCGirl, I'm shattered you haven't seen the rest of that cemetery yet . It starts at #28 here.
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Post by nycgirl on Sept 10, 2012 4:21:12 GMT
Ohhh, I see, that's where you're getting your great Image Bank material.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 2, 2012 23:27:17 GMT
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Post by mich64 on Nov 3, 2012 0:36:43 GMT
Outstanding photo Bixa!
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Post by questa on Aug 29, 2013 8:15:04 GMT
Bixa, That night time pic is marvellous, and everyone's photos of green turfed graveyards make me think how peaceful they are. From the 19th Century section of the cemetery in St Petersburg come these photos. How many "greats" do you know? Dostoyevsky Dargomyzhsky Liadov Rubenstein Kuee (Cui) Borodin Mussorgsky Balakirev Glinka Glazenov This last has a hyphenated name, R*****-K******** When I typed it in, the photo was removed from the post. He wrote Eastern style ballet music among other things.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2013 9:58:23 GMT
Looks like the St. Petersburg cemetery has much more space than Père Lachaise in Paris where the famous (and non famous) people are practically piled up on top of each other.
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Post by questa on Aug 29, 2013 11:30:02 GMT
Hi Kerouac, I think the famous ones have been re-interred into a more garden like setting. They are all in a loose circle around the garden and not far from each other. People visit every day and put flowers on the graves, so it makes sense to keep them in a group.
There are several OTT statues and tombs that I will post about another time.
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Post by patricklondon on Aug 29, 2013 13:14:25 GMT
I've only just stumbled across this. I could go on and on about this (I live near one of the big Victorian London cemeteries, which like so many has its modern area, and the old parts that are managed more for wildlife than the specific memory of the long departed whose graves are no longer tended by family, or indeed for general recreational strolling - so much so that the management not so long ago held a "Family Fun Day". In the cemetery.). I might take the camera up there some day soon. An historic one in London is Bunhill Fields, on the City Road, which the final residence of many nonconformists and non-believers, such as William Blake. And this extraordinary lady: The tomb of Dame Mary Page (died 1728), with the inscription: In 67 months she was tap'd 66 times, had taken away 240 gallons of water, without ever repining for her case, or fearing the operation.And my family war cemetery picture is of the small one in Northern France where a cousin of my father's is buried: If you'll forgive the self-indulgence, the full story is here: autolycus-london.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/lest-we-forget.html
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Post by bjd on Aug 29, 2013 13:27:02 GMT
Interesting that questa's last pic, of Rimsky-Korsakov's grave has the letters of his name spread out around the base, as well as on the plaque.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 29, 2013 13:28:25 GMT
That is a very poignant piece of writing, Patrick.
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Post by htmb on Aug 29, 2013 19:19:25 GMT
Thank you for sharing this moving remembrance of your family members, Patrick.
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