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A cemetery with a view

July 18, 2015

Scenes from Calvary Cemetery, on Chicago’s lakefront.           

July 18, 2015

Scenes from Calvary Cemetery, on Chicago’s lakefront.           

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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