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Confederate flag debate hits cemeteries

July 10, 2015

“Spending taxpayer money on the flag, and displaying it on a public monument, may be one thing; preventing private citizens …

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A unique gesture to remember a sister

October 7, 2014

  Continuing my lifelong fascination with true crime stories, I recently read People Who Eat Darkness, the story of a …

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Greenwood Cemetery, Bemidji, Minnesota

July 25, 2014

This wasn’t the most well-kept cemetery I’ve seen. A guy was mowing while I was there, and it looked like …

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A collection of memorials, Bath, England

March 2, 2014

I’m drawn to all types of memorials, not just gravestones in cemeteries. Non-cemetery memorials say to me that someone thought …

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Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, Part II

February 23, 2014

I wanted to post more general pictures from Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris courtesy of my friend, Ben. I will post …

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Throwback Thursday: Munich Air Disaster, 1958

February 6, 2014

On this day in 1958, a plane carrying members of the Manchester United soccer team crashed upon takeoff in Munich. …

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A site to remember U.S.-Dakota War

November 14, 2013

Just outside of New Ulm, Minnesota, sits the Milford State Monument. I had only heard about this monument; I had …

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Family plots

May 22, 2013

I’m excited to post the first installment in what I hope will be a regular series on my blog. I …

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